2027 Presidency Will Not Return to the North, Says Doyin Okupe

Doyin Okupe

Doyin Okupe, former Presidential Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, has emphatically stated that the presidency will not return to the North in 2027.

During an interview with ARISE NEWS on Monday, recalling historical precedents, Okupe noted that when Olusegun Obasanjo became president, there was an unwritten consensus to elect a Southwestern leader to address regional grievances following the presumed election victory and death of MKO Abiola. 

Okupe stated, “Those who control the affairs of this nation, in terms of politics before now, were more interested in national interest than sectional interest.

“Our failure to evolve a national elite system is one of the most fundamental problems why Nigeria is stagnating because we all pull in different directions.”

He stated, “For 2027, we politicians, and I say that authoritatively without any fear of contradiction or equivocation… in 2027, power cannot return to the North yet. That’s not how we do it.”

“We rotate between the North and the South. The North does eight years, at the end of which the South does eight years,” he explained. “I’m not saying that Bola Tinubu must be president in 2027, but it’s not going to be a northerner.”

He lamented the inability of past leaders, including Ibrahim Babangida, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and TY Danjuma, to nurture a younger elite class, stating, “These are some of the people who have managed the affairs of this country in terms of political balancing for the last 25 years.

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