2023: “Why next president must come from South” – Obasanjo 

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo appears to have dumped the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, as he argued that the next Nigerian president after the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, must come from the southern region.

Obasanjo spoke when he hosted the leaders of the ‘Mzough U Tiv’ (MUT) from Benue State in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital at the weekend. According to the former president, since Buhari is from the North, he should be succeeded by a candidate from the South.

According to an issued statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo said he is in support of a rotational presidency, saying power must return to the South in 2023.

He charged Middle-Belt leaders to keep advocating for a rotational presidency for the country, urging Nigerians not to vote based on emotions that could destroy the nation.

Earlier in his remarks, the Tiv leader, Iorbee Ihagh, had requested Obasanjo to support a power shift from North to South. He said the ‘Mzough u Tiv’ and the Middle-Belt Forum, MBF, had resolved to support the power shift for fairness, justice and true federalism.

He expressed hope that the Middle-Belt would produce the president in 2031.

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