The Minister of Art, Culture, and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, advocates that the presidency should stay in southern Nigeria for the upcoming term to promote fairness and equilibrium.
Nigeria follows an informal power-sharing arrangement between its Northern and Southern regions, with each region alternating in producing the President.
President Bola Tinubu, hailing from the South-West region, succeeded former President Muhammadu Buhari, who originates from the North-West. Amid discussions about which region should produce the President in the 2027 election, particularly with the emergence of a new coalition under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Musawa emphasized that power should remain in southern Nigeria to ensure equity.
“So, it is understandable that after eight years of President Buhari, who is from the North, power needed to shift down to the South, right? So now, you know how it is—for the next two years, four years, it is going to be with the southern presidency, and hopefully, power should continue for the next four years after that to be with the southern presidency only to create that sort of balance.
Hopefully, one day we’ll be able to get over that, and candidates will only be judged on their capacity and what they have to bring to the table. But since we are not there yet, for the benefit of this politics now, power should certainly, for the next four to six years, remain in the southern part of the country.
Hopefully, one day, we’d be able to get over zoning issues and ensure candidates would only be judged based on their capacity and what they bring to the table. she said
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