2027: Why opposition parties should rethink zoning presidency to South – Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has explained wherefore absorption parties successful Nigeria should rethink zoning their 2027 statesmanlike summons to the southbound up of primaries. 

In a connection by his spokesperson, Olusola Sanni, Atiku cautioned absorption governmental actors against embracing what it described arsenic a self-defeating and intellectually dishonest communicative that insists the 2027 statesmanlike summons indispensable beryllium zoned exclusively to the South.

He said portion zoning successful connected the All Progressives Congress whitethorn understandably beryllium to clasp the presidency astir the incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it would magnitude to governmental naivety for the absorption to follow the aforesaid logic without a sober appraisal of electoral realities.

According to him, authorities indispensable beryllium driven by strategy, coalition-building, and hard electoral arithmetic—not affectional talking points oregon selective motivation arguments.

“The archetypal and astir evident question is this: however does a Southern absorption campaigner realistically unseat a sitting Southern president? Nigerian governmental past offers nary precedent for specified an outcome.

“No incumbent president has ever been defeated by an oppos...