By Zacchaeus Adebayo
The event of Saturday, May 23 in which some All
Progressives Congress, APC, Senators-elect
abandoned the retreat organised for them by their
party in Abuja to announce the adoption of two
northern Senators as President and Deputy Senate
President is a big goof. The action of the Senate
Unity Forum, as the group is called, is strange,
insensitive, overtly reprehensible, and bereft of a
sound sense of history.
While it has always been the norm to give every
part of the country a sense of belonging right from
the days of the nation’s founding fathers to the
present era, this Senate ‘Unity’ Forum believes key
offices in the three arms of government could be
occupied as follows: President Muhammadu Buhari
(North West), Senate President Ahmed Lawan
(North East), Deputy Senate President George
Akume (North Central), Deputy Speaker (North
West), Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice
Mahmoud Mohammed (North East), President of the
Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa,
( North East), and Chief Judge of the Federal High
Court, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Auta (North Central).
Simply put, they are proposing a Federal
Government of Northern Nigeria. This is thoughtless
and obscene.
Moreover, the APC must be reminded that it is
gambling away its goodwill so fast and its lack of
sense of justice and equity could be the straw that
might break its back.
Even with all of its excesses, the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, never ever went this far. In
2011 when the party did not do well at all in the
National Assembly elections in the South West, the
party still zoned the House Speakership to them.
Although that plan did not materialize, it at least
tried to give the people a sense of belonging.
Concerning the Senate in particular, I am deeply
surprised that the APC leaders are playing the
ostrich, burying their heads in the sand of greed and
power-grab instead of taking a realistic evaluation
of the situation. One, APC is inheriting a highly
fragmented country flowing from 2015 general
election. More than anything, it needs to show some
sense of sacrifice to be able to weld the whole
country together.
Two, with 59 Senators (that, minus late Senator
Zanna) against PDP’s 49, the APC cannot just do
what it likes with the Senate because it does not
enjoy the kind of majority PDP used to enjoy.
Therefore, I thought a party that genuinely cares for
Nigeria beyond merely grabbing the levers of
power, a party that wants stability in the National
Assembly would have looked the way of the PDP in
the South-East or South-South in its search for a
Deputy Senate President.
Some would wonder if the PDP itself could have
been that magnanimous. One can’t be too sure, but
that is the reasonable thing to do in this
circumstance. That is also why Nigerians elected
APC- to change the way we do things.
Adebayo writes from Ibadan. vanguard news

story for the gods...

The North will produce heads of all the Arms of Nigerian government.
The Executive...
The Legislation...
The Judiciary...

There is nothing anybody can do about it...
Tinubu should go back and take care of Lagos Colony okay Oduduwa Republic...
He should forget extending his influence over the zoo keepers because they own this zoo called Nigeria.
Born to rule... Hausa/Fulani...

Very soon , Yorubas will see this new " Change " hunt and hurt them.

Afonja Awo and Mko betrayed their southern comrades only to die miserable for their treachery and put their people in harms way.




Tinubu you are next

The focus should be on the individual competencies and not their origin. Besides under GEJ it was;

VP- North
Senate President- North
Speaker- North
Chief Justice- North
NSA- North
President Court of Appeal- North
Chief Judge FHC- North

So what's the fuss? The North is a numerical majority which statistically favours it with regard to distribution of posts.

QuotaSystem:
The focus should be on the individual competencies and not their origin.

Nonsense... When it comes to issues like this... you people talk about competence... are you saying that there is no competence person from the southern part of this zoo?
This zoo belong to the grand children of Uthman Danfodio and his converts... Plus their personal slaves... that is the christians and traditional people amongst them over their in the north...

Chigold101:
Nonsense... When it comes to issues like this... you people talk about competence... are you saying that there is no competence person from the southern part of this zoo?
This zoo belong to the grand children of Uthman Danfodio and his converts... Plus their personal slaves... that is the christians and traditional people amongst them over their in the north...

Read the rest of my post and stop foaming in the mouth.

Chigold101:
Nonsense... When it comes to issues like this... you people talk about competence... are you saying that there is no competence person from the southern part of this zoo?
This zoo belong to the grand children of Uthman Danfodio and his converts... Plus their personal slaves... that is the christians and traditional people amongst them over their in the north...

Idi0t, wait till it happens before you start complaining. Bastards.

They have come again with spoofy theories.

U just wan start trouble...
Dey suppose don delete dis post...

dont know why people wont voice their opinion and relax...they rather want to insult others

But the North owns Nigeria na?
So why not?

When kids from South East who scored 69% in Unity School Exams are denied admission while the ones that scored 1% from the North East was offered the same admission, what is else is not possible in Nigeria?

Such developments are even good for us.
It will "teacher" selfish and myopic politicians like Okorocha and Ngige that they are second class citizens in Nigeria.

BlackTechnology:
Very soon , Yorubas will see this new " Change " hunt and hurt them.

Afonja Awo and Mko betrayed their southern comrades only to die miserable for their treachery and put their people in harms way.




Tinubu you are next

Who is your southern comrade, what south?

We have never been southerners.....always and forever a Yorubaland, and in Nigeria, a Westerner.

I still don't understand the ramification of this scenario. The Jonathan lead administration got people rumbling their mouth on how Igbos dominated the key positions of the federal government whom the Northerners has always dominated anyway. Yet, they have nothing to utter on the APC northern domination. Biafra is the only way out of this madness and it's better we tell each other the truth.

noblezone:
But the North owns Nigeria na?
So why not?

When kids from South East who scored 69% in Unity School Exams are denied admission while the ones that scored 1% from the North East was offered the same admission, what is else is not possible in Nigeria?

Such developments are even good for us.
It will "teacher" selfish and myopic politicians like Okorocha and Ngige that they are second class citizens in Nigeria.

You don't have to act like that because you are not A northerner. Nigeria is one. I believe you are just a paid goon trying to insight hatred which you will never succeed by Allah grace. I wish to see a time where all technocrats will lead the country without people thinking of tribes or religion,

Yorubas have sold themselves into permanent slavery.

We in the better south can not take this rubbish.

All indications point of a northern arrogating cabal in power.

What this means is a renewed struggle for total secession and independence from this fraud called Nigeria.

Yoruba your jihad is here.

Enjoy your Oduastan

Kingkamal:

You don't have to act like that because you are not A northerner. Nigeria is one. I believe you are just a paid goon trying to insight hatred which you will never succeed by Allah grace. I wish to see a time where all technocrats will lead the country without people thinking of tribes or religion,

Look at this slave shouting one Nigeria

Better get prepared for total balkanization of Nigeria

2015 is yet to end and every indication points to the prediction of Nigeria's dissolution.

north carry go.even osibanjo should be impeach and yerima should be our vp

BackDatAssUp:
Yorubas have sold themselves into permanent slavery.

We in the better south can not take this rubbish.

All indications point of a northern arrogating cabal in power.

What this means is a renewed struggle for total secession and independence from this fraud called Nigeria.

Yoruba your jihad is here.

Enjoy your Oduastan

... Wish Seun has/had rolling on the floor laughing emoticon to qualify the bolded.

Quit playing, we all know all secessionist threats begin and ends online..

The power change wound is still fresh, within the next few months, y'all will run out of steam and let things be....

Hausa >>> Yoruba
Master >>> slave