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Former Commissioner for Information Culture and Tourism and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State Hon. Jonathan Tsado Vatsa has warned that any attempt to alter the political arrangement that produced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023 will spell doom for the country in 2027.
Vatsa however warned that those flying the card of the need to abolish the present zoning arrangements in the country should have a rethink as such “shifting of goal posts at the middle of the game” will tell no good of the unity of the country.
The Frontline APC Chieftain who was reacting to the recent comments credited to a former spokesperson of Northern Elders Forum, Professor Ango Abdullahi as saying that the rotational Presidency being practiced by Nigeria since the nascent democratic set-up in 1999 “is democratically irresponsible” in an interactive session with newsmen in Minna, the Niger state capital on Wednesday said those agitating for the abolition should wait until after 2027, and maybe when every regions must have had a shot at the Presidency.
The erstwhile Vice Chancellor of Amhadu Bello University (ABU ) Zaria, had argued in an interview that “If you are practising democracy of one man one vote you don’t talk about power going to one area or region or something. You are looking for leaders who will take us out of the woods. The search is going to be for good leadership in Nigeria, not allocating a leadership that you are talking about…”
But the former Publicity Secretary of APC in Niger state equally believed that the submission by the Elder statesman “is not only undemocratic but a joke taken too far in the interest of peace and unity of the country called Nigeria”.
Vatsa a Cousin to a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,Abuja late Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa of blessed memories argued that rather than contemplating on abolishing the zonning arrangement, “we should be clamouring for an Igbo Presidency after 2027 for equity, justice and fairness”, stressing that “it is after every regions must have tasted the Presidency that we can begin to fly any card or come to the table to discuss on how the country can be governed”.
