A lawmaker of the Second Republic and elder statesman, Junaid Mohammed, has berated leaders of the South-south for asking to complete the remaining four years of Goodluck Jonathan presidency.
He said the South-south wouldnât have gotten into power if not for the unfortunate death of Umaru Musa YarâAdua.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen, Mohammed insisted that the North was unwilling to give up power to another region.
He said: âWhat makes anybody think that those who are now holding power are going to voluntarily surrender power in 2023? I donât know. So, zoning and rotation afford us the worst,â he said.
âSome corrupt northern politicians in the PDP cut a deal with Jonathan, but the deal backfired; it didnât work,â he said.
âNow they want to go the way the other two regions in the South, that is, by blackmail and agitation, let them go and join them.
âThere is nothing wrong with it; after all the other people have been doing it, why should they be left behind.
âIf Umaru YarâAdua didnât die and he did his eight years, it was absolutely certain that Goodluck Jonathan wouldnât have been the president.
âHe became the president by virtue of the fact that he was the Vice President by the time YarâAdua died.â
âTo assume that it was favour done to him or to his region was neither here nor there; it is unhistorical.
âWe can never wake the dead; we would have known whom he negotiated with other than the Nigerian Constitution, which provided him to be president in the event of the death or the incapacitation of the president.â
