Atiku’s Breach of Zoning Fueling Political Tension in North – Okechukwu

Former Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria and APC chieftain, Osita Okechukwu, has warned that Atiku Abubakar’s resolution to contest the 2027 presidential election below the African Democratic Congress (ADC) regardless of zoning conventions is heightening political pressure in Northern Nigeria and throughout the nation.

In an announcement, Okechukwu argued that Atiku’s transfer vindicates advocates of energy rotation, stressing that zoning stays an important software for managing Nigeria’s range.

He cautioned Northerners towards falling into ethno-identity politics, citing Sudan’s struggles with ethnic rivalry as a warning.

“The South has other presidential candidates, and truly Atiku and Tinubu are ten and ten pence going by their antecedents,” Okechukwu remarked, including that the PDP continues to be reeling from Atiku’s breach of zoning in 2023.

He recalled how leaders like Abubakar Rimi, Umaru Shinkafi, Adamu Ciroma, Sola Saraki, Alex Ekwueme, and Ogbonnaya Onu sacrificed private ambitions in 1999 to protect nationwide unity.

According to him, previous elections in 1999, 2007, and 2019 demonstrated how rotation sustained stability and decreased acrimony.

Okechukwu additionally expressed concern over studies of safety personnel being deployed to guard marketing campaign posters and billboards, describing it as a misuse of assets amid rising insecurity.

He urged Atiku’s supporters and different stakeholders to keep away from framing the 2027 contest as a North-South zero-sum sport, warning that such rhetoric might deepen divisions and endanger Nigeria’s democracy.

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