2027: Southern, Middle-Belt leaders insist on zoning presidency to South, cautions INEC, others 

The Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) has advised each governmental actors and citizens to guarantee that Nigeria remains a thriving multi-party law ideology successful enactment with the nation’s inalienable past and governmental development.

The leaders of SMBLF made the reflection astatine the extremity of an exigency gathering held successful Abuja, saying: “That the presumption of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall stay successful the confederate portion thereof successful the adjacent 4 years, consequent upon the 2027 wide elections, successful the involvement of nationalist governmental stability, peculiarly arsenic specified zoning arrangement, having been established adjacent by governmental parties, has been the inclination and is emerging arsenic portion of the nationalist antiauthoritarian civilization since 1999.”

The communiqué was signed by Oba Oladipo Olaitan, Leader of Afenifere and Chairman of SMBLF; Dr. Bitrus Pogu, President of the Middle Belt Forum; Senator John Azuta-Mbata, Leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide; and Amb. Godknows Igali (CON), Chairman of PANDEF. The radical advised each governmental parties to portion and elite their statesmanlike candidates from Southern Nigeria.

SMBLF besides stated that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should be, and beryllium seen by Nigerians to be, genuinely autarkic successful handling the affairs of governmental parties and the behaviour of...