{"id":8060,"date":"2013-08-10T01:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T01:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/2015-presidency-north-should-wait-for-now-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T01:40:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T01:40:18","slug":"2015-presidency-north-should-wait-for-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/2015-presidency-north-should-wait-for-now-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Presidency: \u2018North Should Wait For Now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WITH the ongoing agitations from the North that the region should be allowed to produce the President of the country in 2015, one of Nigeria\u2019s surviving nationalists and First Republic Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, has advised Northerners to hold their peace for now.<\/p>\n

    He stressed that out of over 50 years of the country\u2019s independence, the North has ruled for over three decades.<\/p>\n

   \u201cThe North has ruled the country for over three decades. Ideally, what happens in a true democracy is for a president to be elected from anywhere based on his personal merit, no matter where he comes from. But Nigeria is not an ideal country, so where the president comes from is still a very potent factor in the government and peace of the country and so the North should hold their peace for now. <\/p>\n

   \u201cThe South-South is now ruling the country. The Southeast is the only segment of the country where the President has not come out from and to rotate properly, the southeast should been given chance. Like I said before, they have to work for it, they have to prepare for it and they have to strategize for it\u201d, Amechi said.<\/p>\n

    He added: \u201cIf the incumbent president finishes his tenure, logically, it should not even go to the North. The North should be put on hold because, all the mess in the country were done by the military rulers from the North.<\/p>\n

  \u201cThe 36 states in the country today were created by people from the North and that is why the southern region that had two regions before now, has minority of states in comparison with the North. As a matter of fact, government should not go the North, until the country repairs itself. If they are allowed to have power, they will not return it again. For the country to be together and have peace, a lot depends on the North to give peace a chance. <\/p>\n

  \u201cThe hawks in the North should not insist that they should have power on the pretext<\/p>\n

that God has ordained them to rule the country forever, because the British before they left, manipulated us and handed them power.\u201d<\/p>\n

   On the recent deportation of some alleged Igbo beggars from Lagos by the state government, Amechi said: \u201cIf an Igbo man goes to Lagos and there is nothing to do in Lagos and he constitutes himself to a beggar or destitute and the government throws him away, I don\u2019t see how I should have sympathy for him.<\/p>\n

  \u201cIf it is true that they were beggars or miscreants, then they should be shown the way home because it is not our nature to be beggars. Why did they leave their homes in the first place? I don\u2019t have sympathy for them\u201d.<\/p>\n

  He decried the state of the nation, lamenting that present day Nigeria is not the country they envisaged and fought for to give the African continent the right leadership.<\/p>\n

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