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Rotational presidency is here to stay in Nigeria, according to former Senior Special Assistant to former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Media and Publicity Laolu Akande, who also emphasises that it will be challenging to end Southern presidency in 2027.

This was said by Akande in a Lagos interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.

While calling political merger negotiations and schemes to give the North back control in 2027 “child’s play,” Akande stated that such efforts would fail.

“I think it is just child’s play to terminate Southern presidency in 2027. Nigeria has gone past that.

“The South is going to get its eight years. The North will get the next eight years.

“Politicians are just going to make noise. It is not going to be possible, really, to terminate the Southern term.

“Rotational presidency has come to stay in Nigeria. There is a national consensus around the idea of a rotational presidency between the South and the North.

“Anybody trying to reverse that is just joking. It’s not going to work,” he said.

Akande stated that mergers would not produce answers to the nation’s issues when discussing a potential 2027 merger of opposition political groups against the incumbent APC.

“All of these political mergers are not going to solve the problems of Nigeria.

“In 2014, there was a merger that led to the APC. There were a lot of expectations in this country. APC carried the national wave. Nine years after, where are we?

“We are nowhere different from where we were then because the core issues have been left unaddressed.

“So all of these mergers, even if they (proponents) succeed, what is going to happen is that they will just change the characters of people in the Government House.

“We need to understand that there are fundamental problems that have to be sorted out, and we cannot leave it to politicians,” he added.

Reiterating that politicians were the ones who benefited from the system, he urged Nigerians to band together in the face of shared difficulties.

He asserts that national agreement on the rule of law, combating poverty and corruption, local government autonomy, restructuring, and the constitution must be discussed by Nigerians before to the 2027 elections.

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