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Home»Politics»Governor Bello Faulted By Ohanaeze On Rotation Of Presidency
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Governor Bello Faulted By Ohanaeze On Rotation Of Presidency

ACNN TVBy ACNN TVJuly 12, 2021No Comments3 Mins Read
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The Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has faulted a recent statement credited to Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to the effect that “rotational presidency is unconstitutional,” and that “Nigerians should be allowed to make their choices for the best candidate to emerge for the top post.”

Ohanaeze, in a statement issued and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia disclosed that it was reacting to Bello’s speech at the maiden edition of the Governor Yahaya Bello seminar for political and crime correspondents in Abuja on Friday.

Ohanaeze observed that “Governor Bello, no doubt, has demonstrated a remarkable obsession with ambition shortly after providence paved way for him to be sworn in as the governor of Kogi State in 2015 at an impressionable age of 40.

“There is no doubt that Bello has a date with destiny going by a smooth political ascendancy that life has presented to him.”

However,  Ohanaeze expressed fears that the youthful governor “is embarking on a political adventure that lacks both conscience and principle. The immortal words of Uthman Dan Fodio that ‘conscience is an open wound and only the truth can heal it’  should serve as a moral compass to Nigerian leaders. Noah Webster had admonished that all the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the inner still voice or conscience.”

Going down memory lane on the history of rotation, the apex  Igbo group averred that “Governor Bello was still a student, studying accountancy at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria when an agreement was reached between the North and the South with respect to Rotational Presidency. The meeting was held at the National University Commission (NUC) Conference Centre, Abuja in 1998. Dr Chuba Okadigbo spoke on behalf of the South while Alhaji Abubakar Rimi spoke for the North. The likes of Dr Alex Ekwueme, Chief Solomon Lar, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo, etc were at the meeting.

“The Nigerian statesmen examined the merits and demerits of zoning and rotation of power between the composite zones in Nigeria. At the end, it was resolved that the presidency be conceded to the South and that it would rotate between the South and the North in the interest of equity, unity and corporate existence of Nigeria.”

Ohanaeze added that, “The foregoing was the basis for the emergence of presidential candidates of the mainstream political parties from the South West in1999. Since then, the patriotic and peace loving Nigerians have adhered to the rotation principle such that at the end of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo second tenure, President Musa Yar’Adua was elected; Goodluck Jonathan and then President Muhammadu Buhari.”

Ohanaeze explained that “the above expose informs the resolution by the Southern Governors that the South should produce the next President of Nigeria after President Buhari.”

Ohanaeze Ndigbo led by Ambassador Professor George Obiozor, therefore, advised Bello that it would serve his interest better if he supported the resolution by his southern colleagues; more so as he is still young.

Ohanaeze enjoined Bello to embrace the ethical functional relationship between the morality of an agreement and the legality of the constitution.

Ohanaeze contended that for clarity sake,  “morality is the universal foundation of Laws. On the other hand, law should be seen to stand in defence of morality.”

Source: Nigerian Tribune

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