- Goodluck Jonathan's special assistant Doyin Okupe has warned Acting President Yemi Osinbajo against running for presidency in 2019- Okupe said such action will leave the northerners feeling cheated
- He also said that was what happened when his principal ran for presidency after the death of late Umaru Yar'Adau
The special assistant to former president Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs has said that it will be wrong for the Acting president Yemi Osinbajo to run for presidency if anything should happen to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Doyin Okupe in an interview with Tribune said the Northern region of Nigeria will feel cheated out if Osinbajo runs for president in 2019. citing the case of a former president late Umaru Yar'Adua, Okupe said the northerners are scared that what happened in 2010 after Yar'Adua's death might happen again.
Okupe said: “We do not tell each other the truth. The north is afraid; they have the deja vu feeling. “Because of the situation of the health of President Buhari, they are afraid of the scenario of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua playing itself out again.
“They don’t want that. And nobody should, if they want peace for this country, envisage such.
“In this country, it may not be written in the constitution but once a southerner is president and completes his term, the next president will come from the north and vice versa. It is an unwritten constitution that we politicians follow and we ought to honour and respect that arrangement.
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