Zone Your Presidential Ticket To South, Forum Tells ADC, Others

An advocacy group, the South-North Progressive Forum (SNPF), has urged each governmental parties, including the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which is yet to portion its candidacy, to see the South successful 2027, for the involvement of nationalist stability.

It said zoning of enactment statesmanlike tickets to the Southern portion of Nigeria for the 2027 predetermination volition close a historical powerfulness imbalance and foster nationalist unity.

The president of the SNPF, Comrade Festus Onyekwulisi, said beyond a fewer governmental elite agreeing to the zoning of 2027 presidency to the South, determination indispensable beryllium a conscious mobilisation to guarantee that millions of citizens crossed confederate states arsenic good arsenic the 19 bluish states actively bargain into this idea.

“We are softly starring the gathering of a nationalist statement that would interaction the voting process successful 2027,” Onyekwulisi stated.

The SNPF besides called connected the National Assembly to enact laws formalising powerfulness rotation for elective positions.

“As the 2027 elections gully nearer, the South-North Progressive Forum is positioning itself arsenic a potent, issue-based question determined to guarantee that the adjacent predetermination is fought connected the tenets of equity and justice, perchance reshaping the nation’s governmental landscape,” the SPNF person stated.

Making a lawsuit of a president of confederate extraction successful 2027, Onyekwulisi said Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian past since 1957, revealed a stark disparity wherein the North has held the presidency for a cumulative 24 years, compared to the South’s 18 years.

He argued that allowing the South different four-year word successful 2027 is not a substance of governmental favour but a indispensable measurement to reenforce the principles of fairness, national character, and nationalist cohesion.

“This is not astir specified politics, it is astir nationalist integration, equity, justice, and fairness, it is astir ensuring nationalist cohesion truthful that we person bid successful this nation; our imaginativeness is simply a Nigeria wherever nary radical dominates, but wherever each conception has a genuine consciousness of belonging,” helium stated.

Beyond specified advocacy, the SNPF is backing its words with a formidable grassroots mobilization strategy and the SPNF has unveiled an ambitious program to galvanise a minimum of 10 cardinal votes to guarantee the emergence of a Southern president successful 2027.

Onyekwulisi elaborate a blase “mobilization framework” that has already seen the assignment of coordinators successful implicit 30,000 of Nigeria’s 58,300 identified communities, towns and villages.

To combat elector apathy and the menace of electoral malpractices, Onyekwulisi said the radical is moving simultaneous sensitization programs, informing that politicians who are readying to weaponize insecurity, hunger, oregon spiritual and taste sentiments volition beryllium disappointed successful 2027.

“Those antics person expired, the 2027 predetermination is not going to beryllium authorities arsenic usual; immoderate person who wants to coerce Nigerians volition neglect woefully and Nigerians volition ballot their conscience,” helium asserted.

Onyekwulisi said a unsocial diagnostic of the SNPF’s strategy is its instauration of a caller governmental doctrine termed “Rightful Defection’ and the conception provides a shield for its non-partisan members to freely enactment a Southern campaigner of their choice, based connected competence and equity, irrespective of their authoritative enactment affiliations.