2027: Discussion board launches nationwide campaign for energy rotation

Forward of the 2027 normal elections, a political advocacy group, the South-North Progressive Discussion board, SNPF, has launched into a nationwide marketing campaign for energy rotation.

The Discussion board is demanding that the presidency be formally zoned to the southern a part of Nigeria to appropriate a historic energy imbalance and foster nationwide unity.

Addressing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Chairman of the SNPF, Comrade Festus Onyekwulisi, articulated the group’s mission, presenting a data-driven case for equitable energy rotation between the North and South.

“It isn’t sufficient for few political elites to conform to the zoning of 2027 presidency to the South, there should be a aware mobilization to make sure that hundreds of thousands of residents throughout southern states in addition to the 19 northern states actively purchase into this concept and we’re quietly main the constructing of a nationwide consensus that might affect the voting course of in 2027,” Onyekwulisi acknowledged.

The SNPF can be calling on the Nationwide Meeting to enact legal guidelines formalizing energy rotation for elective positions.

The group is equally urging all political events – together with the African Democratic Congress, ADC, which is but to zone its presidential ticket – to embrace zoning to the South in 2027, for the sake of nationwide stability.

“Because the 2027 elections draw nearer, the South-North Progressive Discussion board is positioning itself as a potent, issue-based motion decided to make sure that the subsequent election is fought on the tenets of fairness and justice, probably reshaping the nation’s political panorama,” the SPNF chief acknowledged

Citing Nigeria’s democratic historical past since 1957, Onyekwulisi revealed a stark disparity – the North has held the presidency for a cumulative 24 years, in comparison with the South’s 18 years.

He argued that permitting the South one other four-year time period in 2027 will not be a matter of political favour however a crucial step to strengthen the rules of equity, federal character, and nationwide cohesion.

“This isn’t about mere politics, it’s about nationwide integration, fairness, justice, and equity, it’s about guaranteeing nationwide cohesion in order that we now have peace on this nation; our imaginative and prescient is a Nigeria the place no group dominates, however the place each part has a real sense of belonging,” he acknowledged.

Past advocacy, the SPNF says it plans to galvanise a minimal of 10 million votes to make sure the emergence of a southern President in 2027.

Onyekwulisi stated the group has already put a mobilization framework framework in place with the appointment of coordinators throughout the nation.

To fight voter apathy and the menace of electoral malpractices, Onyekwulisi stated the group is operating simultaneous sensitization packages, warning that politicians who’re planning to weaponize insecurity, starvation, or non secular and ethnic sentiments might be disenchanted in 2027.

“These antics have expired, the 2027 election will not be going to be politics as standard; any politician who desires to coerce Nigerians will fail woefully and Nigerians will vote their conscience,” he asserted.

In accordance with Onyekwulisi, a novel function of the SNPF’s technique is its introduction of a brand new political philosophy termed ‘Rightful Defection’, an idea which, based on him, gives a defend for its non-partisan members to freely assist a southern candidate of their selection, primarily based on competence and fairness, no matter official occasion affiliations.

Requested whether or not the group is contemplating transformation right into a political occasion, Onyekwulisi stated, “This isn’t about politics, that is about patriotism, that is about nationwide integration, that is about fairness, peace, and the progress of Nigeria.”