Nigeria Will Break Up if North Refuses South Presidency in 2023— Senator Okon

In his assertion, Okon who spoke in Uyo while reacting to statements by some northern elders that the presidency would be retained in the North in 2023, commended some prominent leaders and elders from the north who have come to acknowledge the fact that it is the turn of the South to produce the next president in 2023, particularly the South East geo-political zone.

Okon said he was in supports of the opinion of other South South leaders that the South East should be given the opportunity to produce the next president in 2023 as the only zone left to lead the country.

His words: “The 2023 presidency is coming to the South. There is a rotation between North and South. And since we brought in the rotational arrangement for the presidential leadership of this country, the North has had its turn more than once.

“If the north refuses, then the country will break up. So they should let the South have it in 2023 and after that, comes the micro zoning. And in the South, the only geopolitical zone left is the South East. The South West has had its turn once, also the South-South has had its turn once.

“And I am completely in tune with the position of prominent and respected leaders of the South-South, like Edwin Clark, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga who at the moment is the national chairman of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF that the 2023 presidency should go to the Igbos. “It is only the Igbos have not had the opportunity to lead this country.

And this country has been so badly led in the past years and the Igbo man maybe the salvaging agent that this country deserves. “I think and strongly believe that is why we in the South South are unrepentant advocates for the presidency to be given to the South east.

We also believe that they have enough brilliant and capable people to come forward” Senator Okon, however, expressed disappointment over the factionalisation of ‘Ohanaeze Ndigbo’ which happens to be the most respected and generally acceptable umbrella body of the Southeast.

“As somebody who has shared a common goal and destiny with them, being part of the former Eastern region, I urge them to get their acts together and purge most rigorously and fundamentally these agents of disunity among them”, Okon stressed.

Ayooluwa Joshua