Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Kano State Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Waiya, has declared that it would be unfair for the North to deny the South its full eight-year turn in the Presidency.
Waiya, therefore, called on Northerners to allow the South to complete its tenure under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu before seeking a return to power.
The commissioner made the declaration on Friday at the unveiling of Nigeria Forward, a political platform formed to promote national unity and pursue the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to him, rotating the Presidency between the North and the South has become imperative to preserve fairness and political stability.
He noted that the North completed eight years in power under the late former President Muhammadu Buhari before the transition to President Tinubu from the South.
‘For the sake of fairness, the North had its own eight years under the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, and now the South is serving its first term under President Bola Tinubu,’ Waiya said.
‘The North should not be unfair to the South. We feel that we should be very fair to our brothers and sisters in the South. This means allowing the South to continue and complete its tenure, so that the North can wait to complete another round of eight years.’
He argued that interrupting the current political dispensation could destabilize the country and jeopardize the ongoing reforms and gains achieved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Waiya added that Nigeria Forward has two fundamental objectives: promoting national unity and consolidating the developmental gains recorded under the Tinubu administration.
Speaking earlier, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, explained that Nigeria Forward represents a collective responsibility to extend the emerging gains of President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Initiative.
He emphasised that policies achieve their greatest impact when citizens understand them, ‘participate in them, and are able to connect them to opportunities in their own communities. This is where Nigeria Forward has an important role to play.’