MKO Abiola Rival, Bashir Tofa Says North Will Not Relinquish Power In 2023

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MKO Abiola rival in the annulled June 12, 1993 Presidential election and National Republican Convention candidate, Alhaji Bashir Tofa has said that zoning is dead in the country.
Tofa who said said the idea will never promote unity among Nigerians, advised that the South should not expect the North to relinquish power at the end of President Buhari’s second term in 2023.
Tofa stated this in an interview published in The Sun of Sunday, September 29, in which he said zoning is a very divisive and myopic formula.
According to him, “I have never supported rotational presidency for the simple fact it is an idea that will never promote unity amongst Nigerians. It is a very divisive and myopic formula.
What Nigeria needs is a Nigerian president, not a sectional or zonal President, who is there simply because he/she is from a particular zone or region of the country.”
He explained that for zones to be clamoring for presidency as a do or die affair during each election cycle, is certainly one major factor for the utter disunity we experience in these difficult times.
According to Tofa, rotational presidency is utterly undemocratic and unfair to qualified people who have ambitions to lead their country, but won’t be availed with the opportunity because they are from the wrong zone at that material time.
“The shouts of ‘it must be our turn’ from one or two zones, and ‘no, it is not’, are the consequence of rotational presidency, which are very inimical to the unity of this country.”
The former presidential candidate the idea of rotational presidency was said to be the handiwork of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Tofa is known as a Nigerian politician from Kano State and was the National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, won by his rival Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, but the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida never released the official results.

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