2023: Power must not shift to South West – Deji Adeyanju

The ex-Youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Comrade Deju Adeyanju on Friday said, power must not shift to the South West in 2023.

This is not the first time, he was calling and faulting those advocating for power shift to the South West, but said it would amount to injustice against the South East to deny them of presidency in 2023.

Adeyanju said the South East region should take power in the 2023 presidential election, noting that the region has never produced a President in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.

He lashed at those clamouring for power to go to the South and pushing for South-West describing them as “worse than those asking power to stay in the north”.

These people are not interested in equity but tribalism and selfish interest,” Adeyanju wrote on his verified Facebook page.

“It is better for power to remain in the
North than for power to go to the South West for another 8yrs. It will be manifestly unjust for power to go to the South West again after they got 8 years as president and another 8yrs as VP.

“This democracy does not belong to the South West. Those clamoring for power to go to the South and pushing for South West are worse than those asking power to stay in the North.

Incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC’s) President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner, is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third term in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election.