It’ll Be Unfair for North to Retain Power Beyond 2023 – Olu Falae
POLITICS DIGEST – Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olu Falae has reacted to the recent debate on which region should produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023.
He argued that it will be unfair and provocative if the North retains power in 2023 general elections when Buhari must have completed his second tenure.
Falae made this known in an interview with Vanguard, saying he does not want to get involved in what he called messy politics.
According to him, “Definitely, it will be unfair and provocative to allow the Presidency continue in the North post 2023. If the President were from the south now and people are saying it should remain in the south, it will be unfair to other Nigerians.
“I don’t want to get involved in the messy politics about that one. Two major divides in our country, North and South. What was amalgamated in 1914 was North and South? The fair thing is for a qualified and respected southerner to be President.
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“I’m saying let us agree that it should come to the south. That is the first step. If you don’t take that first step, you will cause unnecessary complications.
“There are people who are saying it should be North now. So, let’s get consensus now that fairness requires that it should come to the South in the interest of fairness, stability, and justice.
“Once that is agreed, you will now limit the area of contest and it will go on to which person, which party. There are infinite divisions.
“I have retired from partisan politics. On Election Day, I’ll cast my vote. I’m no longer a member of any party or a supporter of anybody on a routine basis. No. I meant it and I still mean it.
“I took that decision because I believe I felt within me that I have served Nigeria well in my time and I needed to give other matters priority in my life, like my family, like my children, grand children and the community where I’m the head, my church.
“Those are areas of my life which I now think I ought to give more priority, time and attention to. So, don’t ask me about individuals who wants to be President. I vote on Election Day but don’t ask me which party and which candidate I will vote for.”
