2023: Dalung Canvasses Southern Presidency

By CHIKA CHIMEZIE

Prominent Nigerians are united on the belief that what will bring unity, fairness and equity in 2023 is the rotation of the presidency to the Southern part of the country.

 

Former minister of sports, Soloman Dalung echoes this view while speaking on AriseTelevision, Thursday afternoon,  February, 23. Dalung who recently launched a new political platform, the Nigerian National Movement with Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso, former governor of Kano state, said, despite his association with Alhaji kwankwaso, he would not vote any presidential candidate from the North in 2023. According to Dalung, retaining the presidency in the North after eight years of President Mohammed Buhari regime, he said, negates the principles of fairness, equity and Justice. Dalung, who was a minister under the All Peoples Congress, APC, said that he nearly died in 2015 fighting for the enthronement of these virtues in Nigeria. But regrettably, he bemeoned, that all the changes he and many other Nigerians fought for in 2015 were never actualized by the present administration. According to him, the country has never been this divided in its history and if we are sincere about being one indivisible entity, the leadership of Nigeria must rotate between North and South, he concluded. Dalung  stated that though he is part of the new body called Nigeria National Movement but he is not working towards making the movement another political party. Instead, he said he would want to identify with anything that will bring justice to Nigeria.

Dalung who tendered apology to Nigerians for his role in foisting APC on Nigerians said, the party has failed in all promises. According to him, “in 2015, we never campaigned for bandits to take over Zamfara. Neither did we campaign for a bag of rice to be thirty thousand Naira, nor a dollar to be N500”. Dalung called decamping from PDP to APC and vice versa mere metamorphosis saying there is not much to expect from such political manoeuvres.