Sani made the comment in a post on X on Thursday, September 17, amid renewed debate over the informal principle of rotating the presidency between the North and South.
He argued that northern politicians, including former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, should allow the South to complete an eight-year tenure before seeking the presidency.
“The 2027 political contest should be between Tinubu, Peter Obi, Sowore, Makinde, Adebayo, Duke and other Southern Candidates. The South should complete its eight years,” Sani wrote.
He acknowledged that power rotation is not provided for in the Nigerian Constitution but argued that it remains, in his view, an equitable political arrangement based on the country’s history and political realities.
“It’s not constitutional but it’s equitable. We should not bury our heads in the sand and deny the realities and complexities of our history,” he said.
Sani further argued that the North should have what he described as an “unchallengeable right” to the presidency in 2031 after the South completes eight years.
“The North should have an unchallengeable right in 2031,” he stated.
He also warned that politicians who reject the principle of power rotation in 2027 should not expect the arrangement to be observed when power is expected to return to the North in 2031.
The comments come ahead of the January 16, 2027 presidential election, for which the Independent National Electoral Commission has published a final list containing 18 presidential candidates. The list includes Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Omoyele Sowore, Seyi Makinde, Adewole Adebayo and Donald Duke, among others.
Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, has maintained that there is no provision in the Nigerian Constitution preventing an eligible Nigerian from contesting the presidency based on regional power rotation.
The debate over zoning and rotation remains a matter of political convention and competing positions, rather than a constitutional requirement.
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