The Presidency has charged the North to honour the present eight-year tenure of the South, within the curiosity of “reciprocity and national stability.”
Personal Assistant to the President on Radio and Broadcast (Office of the Vice President), Hajya Rahma Abdulmajid, acknowledged this in Kano on Sunday throughout the Grand Inauguration & Strategic Media Awards Ceremony of Matan Arewa 4 Tinubu Again (MATA).
She stated Nigeria’s nationwide stability hangs by a “slender thread,” demanding that the North honour the unwritten power rotation pact and permit the South to complete its eight-year tenure, warning that breaking this belief might jeopardise the nation’s unity.
According to her, Nigeria’s power rotation association will not be a sectional concession however a reciprocal compact that has stabilised the Fourth Republic.
Making a veiled reference to former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, who she recalled attended and took part within the well-known Kaduna assembly the place the power rotation settlement was reached, Abdulmajid argued that the North can not sacrifice the steadiness of Nigeria for the ambition of 1 man.
Tracing the origin to Kaduna, she famous that when navy rule ended, patriots negotiated a framework for unity, sustaining, simply as he stated, “And current in that room was Atiku Abubakar himself, as later confirmed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume.
Insisting on the power rotation association, the presidency stated, “In 1999, when the weapons of navy rule lastly fell silent, this nation didn’t simply change governments—we made a sacred promise. Our founding patriots gathered in Kaduna with one pressing, defining query echo-chambered of their minds: How can we preserve Nigeria one?
“And from that sacred deliberation came a compact: not a sectional concession, but a reciprocal agreement. This gentleman’s agreement decreed that power must rotate between North and South every eight years—an arrangement to guarantee fairness, to ensure stability, and to guarantee that no Nigerian ever feels like a stranger in his own country.”
On how the association labored, Abdulmajid stated it survived as a result of it was honoured.
“This will not be fiction. This is our historical past. And how did it work? It labored as a result of we honoured it. In 1999, we gave it to the South—Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, eight years, from 1999 to 2007. Then we gave it to the North: Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007. But dying, a painful dying, minimize his tenure brief in 2010.
“His vice, Goodluck Jonathan from the South, took over. The North felt cheated. The North said our turn was not complete, and that agitation was legitimate. What happened? In 2015, power returned to the North. The late former President Muhammadu Buhari, eight full years, 2015 to 2023! The sequence was restored! The principle survived,” she acknowledged.
The presidency contended that the settlement is a two-way road and the North has already taken its full profit.
“My people, the agreement is reciprocal; it is a two-way street. The North has already taken its full benefit after eight solid years under Buhari. You cannot eat your cake and still demand another man’s cake,” Abdulmajid stated
The presidential aide harassed that stability requires reciprocity, recalling that the present President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Southerner, labored tirelessly for the late General Muhammadu Buhari to emerge victorious when the North demanded power should return after Jonathan’s tenure.
“That same logic applies today. You cannot abandon a principle when it becomes inconvenient. If you do, you tell the world that the agreement was never a principle at all—merely a temporary tactic. And if we destroy trust today, what will we use to negotiate tomorrow? Let us be honest. Much of this noise against the South completing its term is not a matter of principle. It is personal ambition,” she queried.
Abdulmajid stated, “Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar tells us zoning is “self-defeating.” But he participated in and benefited from zoned preparations in 2015 and 2019 after they favored his ambition! When rotation opened the door for him, it was acceptable. When it stands in his method, it turns into “intellectually dishonest.”
“Shall we sacrifice Nigeria’s stability for one man’s ambition? The North’s genuine interest is not served by that; the North’s interest is stable inclusion. The guarantee that power will return to you only lives if we honour the compact today.”
On his half, Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, corroborated Abdulmajid’s place, saying the unity of Nigeria can solely be assured by honest play and inclusivity.
The governor who was represented by his Director-General of Media and Publicity, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, argued that reversing the prevailing rotational association will paint the North in ignoble mild, at the same time as he urged the area to keep the established order by re-electing President Tinubu for a second time period.
In his remarks, former Governor of Jigawa State and instant previous Minister of Defence, Mohammad Abubakar Badaru, stated the Renewed Hope Administration of President Tinubu has benefited the North greater than some other a part of Nigeria.
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