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Senate Minority Leader Abba Moro has cautioned that putting up northern candidates in the general election of 2027 could be politically costly and has recommended political parties to reevaluate their plans.

During his appearance on Sunday Politics, a Channels Television current affairs program, he made this claim.

Moro, who represents Benue South in the Senate, said that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) failure in the 2023 presidential election was due to the party’s choice to run a Northern candidate to replace another Northerner, a choice that Nigerian voters vehemently disagreed with.

In an attempt to unseat then-current President Muhammadu Buhari, the PDP chose former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate in the 2023 election. Both guys have held national leadership positions and are from northern Nigeria.

Moro said, “In 2023, the PDP to unseat the government of APC, decided to put its best foot forward and at that time, picked Atiku Abubakar against the code of an unwritten agreement of North-South presidency.

“It backfired.

“The majority of Nigerians at that time chose a southern candidate to fulfill the righteousness of the unwritten convention of the North-South rotation. That presidency will be four years by 2027.”

The senator mentioned the constitutional provision that restricts a president to two four-year terms, but he did not specify which candidate he supports for 2027.

“Again, it is going to present some little somersaults if, against the backdrop of what happened in 2023, you begin to tinker with the idea of getting power back to the north.

“The reasonable thing to do is: the south should produce the next president to complete eight years of the south, and automatically, even though unwritten, Nigerians will be looking up to the north to produce the next president in 2031.”

Moro went on to say that Atiku and his erstwhile running partner Ifeanyi Okowa’s recent departure from the PDP was “good riddance to bad rubbish.”

Although he expressed hope that the PDP will regain its power and effectiveness as an opposition platform, he claimed that both people were heavily involved in the internal conflicts that shook the party after the 2023 elections.

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