Publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, has said that the only realistic path for Nigeria’s opposition to defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election is to zone the presidency to the Muslim North and the vice presidency to the Christian South.
Speaking on Arise Television on Friday, Momodu argued that President Tinubu has already “locked down the South,” making it nearly impossible for any southern candidate — including Peter Obi or former President Goodluck Jonathan — to challenge him effectively at the polls.
“It’s obvious that the ruling government has turned this into an ethnic battle, and it’s going to be North versus South,” he said. “That is why PDP and APC power brokers are insisting that their next candidate must come from the South. They know Tinubu already controls the South.”
The former presidential aspirant noted that Tinubu’s vast financial resources and grip on state structures give him a huge advantage, stressing that only a strategic northern counterbalance could tilt the race in the opposition’s favour.
Momodu also dismissed concerns that such zoning would violate fairness or the principle of rotation, saying the idea of an eight-year North-South power sharing arrangement “is not written in the Nigerian Constitution.”
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