Ex-Afenifere scribe Okunrounmu says it’s the turn of S’East to produce President
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Former Afenifere Secretary General Femi Okunrounmu has justified the need to elect Peter Obi President to rotate power to the South East in the hands of a competent man and ensure equity, inclusiveness, and respect for the covenant of national engagement.
Okunrounmu, a former Senator, said his position is based on the fact other parts of the South have taken turn in ruling Nigeria in a statement titled, “The Imperative of Nigerian President from South East Extraction,” in which he argued federal character and power rotation are paramount.
“The government of Goodluck Jonathan constituted the 2014 National Conference which I had the privilege of being appointed as Chairman of its Presidential Advisory Committee and a delegate,” he recounted.
“The resolutions at the 2014 CONFAB have since become the new testament of our national political engagement.”
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Fulani/Yoruba power rotation won’t work
“One of the fundamental gains from the conference which derived from earlier conferences under [former Head of State Sani] Abacha and [former President Olusegun] Obasanjo was the rotation of the office of the President between the North and South and amongst the constituent six geo-political zones,” Okunrounmu said, per reporting by Vanguard.
“Thus, those who delinquently run their mouths against Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Afenifere, for expressing, in the strongest terms that the denial of the South East its legitimate turn, may sound the death knell of the federation are only being hypocritical or in the uneasy foreboding of losing unmerited privileges in the Nigeria contraption.
“Let it be said that no argument of democracy based on the flawed Nigerian demographic statistics will make a Northerner succeeding [President Muhammadu] Buhari see the light of the day nor will an enactment of Fulani/Yoruba rotation of power through the elections peacefully come to pass.
“Those who gleefully share the nation’s resources based on the federal character cannot hypocritically seek to jettison the principle in the access to the Presidency of Nigeria without dire consequences for its continued corporate existence.”