According to the report from the Sun, the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has pointed out the inherent flaw in the current zoning system for the presidency in Nigeria, which favors the rotation of power between the north and south, rather than allocating it fairly across the six geopolitical zones.
He argued that this system has perpetuated a sense of injustice, as evidenced by the denial of the Southeast region’s opportunity to produce a president.
He said, “According to the Federal Character Commission, the presidency is zoned to rotate between North and South instead of rotating through six geo-political zones. This has made it impossible for Southeast to produce a president when two large zones come together to deny the zone the opportunity. The presidency was zoned to the South. The Southern and Middle-Belt met, deliberated and resolved to zone it to the southeast. In their own opinion, justice demanded that it should be zoned to the southeast; they therefore zoned it to the southeast. Later on, southwest candidate emerged in the APC being the political party in power.”..…….See More