Ahead of the 2023 general election in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, many prominent individuals, political parties, religious leaders and Nigerian electorates have been giving opinions on how the political parties and politicians should deal with the situation bordering around where the next president of the country should emerge from.
Photo: Rev. Fr. Mbaka, culled from the Tableshakers
Remarkably, various individuals from the North and southern parts of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have been declaring their intentions to vie for the presidential seat of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, come 2023.
Possibly, with with the aim of influencing the 2023 presidential ambition, the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, recently, implored President Muhammadu Buhari that he should do everything possible to ensure that the next president of the country do not emerge from the North.
Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka insisted that the Federal Republic of Nigeria may end, if the North should produce the next President of the country.
Point of Concern
There may not be problem with the opinion, if Rev. Fr. Mbaka was convincingly admonishing the President of the country, Muhammadu Buhari, to particularly assist his party, APC, toward ensuring that a Southerner becomes the presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 presidential election. However, it seemed confusing and, democratically unrealizable when Rev. Fr. Mbaka insisted that Nigeria may end, if the next president comes from the North.
However, it could be well understood that the president may only assist to influence where the presidential aspirant of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) may emerge from, there is nothing he can do to stop the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and other opposition parties from picking their presidential candidates from the region or state of their preferences.
Constitutionally, the fate of existence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as a country, is never tied to the region where a president emerges from. Hence, one may be confused on the motives behind the suggestion by Rev Fr. Mbaka that the country will cease to exist, if a northerner should emerge as the next President of the country.
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