Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, announced that the North should wait till 2019 to produce the President, The Punch reports.
Fayose described the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari, as a stooge of a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
In the statement presented by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the Governor said:
“The people of northern Nigeria will choose their own candidate in 2019 when it will be the turn of the region to produce the President.”
Continuing his speech, the state governor called on northerners to vote massively for President Goodluck Jonathan next month. Fayose noticed, if Jonathan won the February polls, his tenure would be completed by 2019. After that it would be the turn of the North to produce the President.
He added that the South-West had ruled for eight years. Therefore, it would be logical if the South-South should be allowed to continue.
Fayose assured that four years were not too much for the northerners to wait for the return of the presidency to their region.
“By 2019, the presidency will go to the North, and it will be the choice of the leaders and stakeholders in the region to choose whoever they want among the array of patriotic Nigerians that abound in the region.”
At the end of the statement the Governor stressed that the unity and stability of the country should be of high priority. Only then no Nigerian would feel inferior to others as a result of ethnic or religious inclinations.
It should be added that Goodluck Jonathan has recently faced various allegations of his negative predisposition towards Nigeria’s Northern region. Therefore, talking to a delegation of the Northern Elders Council (NEC), he had to dispel the rumors.
