2023 Presidency: Nothing Wrong If Northerner Succeeds Buhari

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Senior Pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, has said a Northern Hausa or Fulani can still emerge as Nigeria’s president in 2023.

Bakare said the emphasis should be on the competence of the next president and not the zone producing him.

Buhari is from the North and many southerners are agitating for the presidency to come from their region after eight years of Buhari’s reign. Some have attributed it to an unwritten rule, which Buhari also benefited from.

But in an interview on Channels TV, Bakare stressed that emphasis should be put on competence in the choice of leaders.

According to Bakare: “Let the best of the best emerge, it doesn’t matter which part of the country the person comes from.

“I have heard all kinds of arguments on rotation and zoning. Some are saying (Olusegun) Obasanjo, plus (Goodluck) Jonathan, that’s 14 years and (Umaru) Yar’Adua plus Buhari is 10 years and that the North still has four more years. At this moment, what is needed is a person who can do it.

“Political parties should bring their best forward. Let the best of the best emerge. It can go to the South, it can go to the North. It is only one seat.

“If it’s an Igbo man, so be it, if it’s a Yoruba man, so be it. If it is a Northerner, a Hausa or Fulani, so be it. And I am saying that passionately.”