The furore over Daura's suggestion has more to do with the quarters it is emanating from rather than the substance and weight of the issue that was raised. The issue is at the heart of the contradictions of the federal contraption this country has had
Criticisms trailing the call by Mamman Daura, nephew to President Buhari for the jettisoning of rotational presidency for merit are not as much with the validity of what he said. Before now, that view had been copiously canvassed by a number of serious-minded Nigerians with varying degrees of persuasion.
Daura had while speaking on the BBC Hausa service said: “this turn-by- turn, it was done once, it was done twice, and was done thrice…it should be for the most competent and not for someone who comes from somewhere…” So if we are now being told that merit should take precedence over other mundane considerations in determining who occupies the highest political office in the country, it should ordinarily not ruffle shoulders. But the avalanche of criticisms that have trailed this singular call, would suggest there is more to it than ordinarily meets the eyes.
Those who oppose the suggestion do not discountenance the place of merit and competence in guaranteeing effective and purposeful leadership. They have quarrel with inherent duplicity of the suggestion. After all, very competent persons can be found in all the geo-political divides of the country. There is nothing preventing those in the area the presidency is zoned from throwing up the best within them using the power rotation formula.
With manifest evidence of the subversion of the will of the electorate during elections, scrapping zoning will dovetail to power monopoly by the section of the country that currently occupies that high office. That will lead to domination and corruption of power. For a country that is still largely assailed by nepotism, where ascendancy to political office is determined by ethnic, religious and some other parochial considerations, rotation is still the way to go.
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