The Minister of Art, Culture, and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, believes that the presidency should remain with southern Nigeria for the next term to ensure equity and balance.
Musawa while speaking on Friday during an interview on Channnels TV’s Sunrise Daily, said “So, it is understandable that after eight years of President Buhari, who is from the North, power needed to shift down to the South, right? So now, you know how it is—for the next two years, four years, it is going to be with the southern presidency, and hopefully, power should continue for the next four years after that to be with the southern presidency only to create that sort of balance”.
“Hopefully, one day we’ll be able to get over that, and candidates will only be judged on their capacity and what they have to bring to the table. But since we are not there yet, for the benefit of this politics now, power should certainly, for the next four to six years, remain in the southern part of the country.”
Minister Musawa explained that maintaining the power-sharing deal was key to the country’s stability and giving people a sense of belonging.
“I think zoning is important only because we have not been able to get over the doldrums of ethnicity, and we’re not looking at ourselves as Nigeria, and I think you spoke about that poem, ‘I am a Nigerian’ that I wrote and produced, a couple of months ago, which will be coming back onto the airways very soon.
“So, now we have not gotten over that, and because we’ve not gotten over that, I think every part of Nigeria, or rather the different— the north and the south—have to feel as if they’re being carried along.”
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