Forget 2027 election, PDP, LP chieftains tell Atiku.

A member of the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Diran Odeyemi, and a chieftain of the Labour Party, Anslem Eragbe, have warned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar against contesting the 2027 presidential election.

Both Odeyemi and Eragbe said the South should be allowed to rule for eight years. They said the 2027 southern president might not necessarily be President Bola Tinubu. Eragbe, in an interview, argued that Atiku should not have contested the 2023 presidential election because it was the turn of the South to produce a president.

He said, “Atiku was not supposed to contest the 2023 presidential election because it was the turn of southern Nigeria. “It is the turn of the South until 2031.”Being a former Vice President of Nigeria for eight years, Atiku knows Nigeria’s power drill and equation.

He should support younger Nigerians to power and provide guidance in 2027.” Asked if the former vice president would breach any law if he chooses to run for the nation’s highest office in 2027, Eragbe said the PDP stalwart “is entitled to his ambition and aspirations, adding, however, that “2027–2031 is for southern Nigeria.”

According to him, the 2027 presidency shall remain in southern Nigeria and should be zoned to the South-South region. “It should be further micro-zoned to the (defunct) midwestern region. I mean the defunct Bendel, now Edo and Delta states.

We expect the major political parties to do this for equity, justice, fairness, and parity. “However, should President Bola Tinubu win the 2027 presidential election and continue till 2031, power shall return to Northern Nigeria,” he added.