Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has replied to the former Governor of Benue State and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume who, in an interview published yesterday, (Sunday December 8) urged the North to forget the presidency in 2027 and wait for 2031.
According to Akume, President Bola Tinubu should be allowed to go for a second term in 2027.
But in a tweet by his spokesman, Mr. Paul Ibe, Atiku asked, “Where, then, does true equity and fairness reside?”
“By the year 2027, the South will have enjoyed 17 years of leadership — eight years under Obasanjo, five years under Jonathan and four years under Tinubu — while the North will have experienced only 11 years, with Yar’Adua serving three and Buhari eight. This results in a disparity of six years between the North and South, casting a shadow over the balance of power,” the PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election contended.
Arguing, however, that the question is not whether Tinubu should be re-elected but whether he is re-electable and or deserves it, in the estimation of the people whose responsibility it is to elect their leaders, Atiku declared:
“In any case, the power to elect and vote out their government lies firmly with the Nigerian people, entrusted to them upon the government’s ability to prove itself worthy of the people’s ballot. But has the Tinubu government demonstrated that it deserves to be re-elected? The answer, alas, is as clear as the heavens themselves — God forbid!”
