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A\nchieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Jackson Ojo, has advised\nthe South to forget their dream of producing the President of Nigeria in 2023,\nsaying at the expiration of his tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari would\nhandover to another northerner.
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\nOjo stated\nthis yesterday in Abuja in a chat with our correspondents. The APC chieftain\nwhile counselling the South to build a common front ahead of the next election\ncycle noted that South lacks the capacity to politically engage the North in a\nbattle of supremacy.
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\nIn his\nwords, politicians of South-West extraction currently agitating to replace\nPresident Buhari in 2023 lack the visibility and national acceptance to make\ngood their dream saying, \u201cwho is there in the South that has the national\nclout? There are some people in the South-West that are making noise today,\nwanting to be President.
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\n\u201cThe truth\nis that they cannot be President. That is it! Mark my word! APC Presidential candidate\nin 2023 will emerge from the north. The South-West will be given the Vice\nPresidential slot. And if the PDP takes its candidate from the South, then they\nhave given the opportunity to the APC to win again. The south does not have the\npolitical capacity to fight the North.\u201d
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\nJustifying\nhis reason for rating the south so poorly, Ojo, who doubled as Coordinator,\nYoruba Youth Alliance added that the north has since left the south behind in\nterms of togetherness and unity; factors he claimed would determine who gets\nthe Presidency in 2023
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\nHe\ncontinued: \u201cThe people of the South are agitating to be President of Nigeria in\n2023. Is it by mere verbal expression? The North has 19 states including the\nFCT. The South has 17. There is no political synergy between the South-East,\nSouth-South and South-West. Each of them is standing independently as a pillar\nthat cannot be moved but when you go up north, you will always get the\ntraditional bloc vote because there is a unifying factor among them.
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\n\u201cReligion\ncan unify them and they have leaders that can unify them. In the north, you\nhave the Northern Governors Forum, the Northern Senators Forum and all that. Do\nwe have these unifiers in the South? South-South is standing on its own, same\nwith South-East and South-West. In the South, there is a multi-dimensional\ndichotomy, politically that is. Such a dichotomy can never be found in the\nNorth.
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\n\u201cLet us\nnot deceive ourselves. What is the voting capacity of the North? The voting\ncapacity of the South-South and the South-East cannot withstand the voting\ncapacity of Kano, Katsina and Kebbi states.\u201d
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\nThere are\nagitation by Southern politicians, particularly from the South-West and\nSouth-East for the zoning of the APC Presidential ticket at the expiration of\nPresident Buhari\u2019s second tenure in 2023, with the likes of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu\nand Tunde Bakare being seen as likely aspirants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Jackson Ojo, has advised the South to forget their dream of producing the President of Nigeria in 2023, saying at the expiration of his tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari would handover to another northerner. Ojo stated this yesterday in Abuja in a chat with our correspondents. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n