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The 2023 general elections are less than a year from now. With the recent conclusion of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention where Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu was elected by consensus as the national chairman of the party, activities for the 2023 general elections have commenced in earnest.
The election of Senator Adamu as the national chairman presupposes that the presidential candidate of the APC would come from the Southern hemisphere of Nigeria. With President Muhammadu Buhari from the North, the presidential candidate and ultimately the elected president of Nigeria, three southerners viz; Chief Bisi Akande, Chief John Odigie Oyegun and Adams Oshiomhole were the national chairmen of the party.
It would be somewhat incongruous for the party to produce the presidential candidate from the North again for the 2023 general elections with Alhaji Adamu as the national chairman.
Since 1999, among the three geopolitical zones in the South, the Yoruba had produced a president for eight years in Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. By 2023 the same Yoruba should have produced a vice president for eight years in Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
The same Yoruba also produced the current Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila. The South-south produced the vice president and President of Nigeria in former President Goodluck Jonathan for eight years between 2007 and 2015.
The five states of the South-east had shared the position of the Senate President between 1999 and 2007. Since this Fourth Republic dispensation, the Igbo have not had the opportunity of producing either a vice president or a president for the past 24 years by 2023.
If a Yoruba man succeeds Buhari in 2023, he will most likely be in office for another eight years. The vice president of a Yoruba president will definitely come from the North. When the Yoruba president finishes his eight years, there’s no possibility that he would hand over to an Igbo man. It then means that the number one position will go back to the North. The northern president may also be in office for another eight years. The most the northern president can do for the Igbo is to choose an Igbo man as his running mate when the Yoruba man finishes his tenure.
Therefore, if a Yoruba succeeds President Buhari, and subsequently returns power to the North after his tenure, an Igbo man could lay claim to the presidency in 2039, which is the next 16 years. By 2039 the Igbo would have…
