Presidency: Why northerners should wait until 2031 – Akume

Presidency: Why northerners should wait until 2031 – Akume

The secretary to the government of the federation, George Akume has stated why he feels northerners vying for the presidency should wait until 2031.

Speaking during an appearance TVC programme, Politics Today, Akume stated that those with presidential ambitions should give President Bola Tinubu the opportunity to complete a potential second term.

Addressing former vice president and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, he not to join the race in 2027.

“Today, it’s what I said at the convocation of Nile University, where I was given an honorary doctorate. I appealed to my brothers in the north to wait till 2031 to run for the presidential election.

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“It is not yet the time for the North to throw in the hat in the ring. It’s not yet the time. This has been my appeal to them. Let us not destroy our country because of personal ambition.

“Tinubu, as a southerner, should be allowed to have a second term, meaning that those eyeing the presidency from the north in 2027 should look beyond that year by waiting till 2031.

“If it is the will of God for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to be president of Nigeria, even at the age of 90 years, he can get it, but he and other northerners, eyeing the office now, should look beyond 2027.

“But my advice and this has been consistent, is that let us not rock the boat.

“Let us allow this power to reside in the South for eight years, and from there it will come to the North. To do otherwise, honestly, is to destroy this country,” he said.

 

Presidency: Why northerners should wait until 2031 – Akume