Doyin Okpe, former leader of the Labor Party (LP), has expressed the view that North Korea will not be able to return to the presidency in 2027.
The former presidential aide argued, without fear of contradiction or ambiguity, that North Korea needs to forget about the 2027 presidency.
In an interview with Arise News on Monday, Okupe said there was a tacit agreement between the North and South on a change of power, which should be respected.
On the fate of President Bola Tinubu, Okupe said there is no obligation for the incumbent leader to remain in power in 2027, but he must be a Southerner and not a Northerner.
He said, “In the past, the people who controlled this country’s politics were more interested in national interests than regional interests.
“The failure of the national elite system to evolve is one of the most fundamental problems that has kept Nigeria stagnant because we are all moving in different directions.
“Looking ahead to 2027, we politicians say this with authority, without fear of contradiction or ambiguity…In 2027, we still cannot restore power to North Korea. This is not our way.”
“We rotate between the north and the south. We do the north for eight years, and at the end of that we do the south for eight years," he explained. “I’m not saying Bola Tinubu has to be president in 2027, but he won’t be a Northerner.”
However, Okupe said Nigeria’s former leaders, including Ibrahim Babangida, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalami Abubakar and TY Danjuma, are ready to take on leadership responsibilities after them. He lamented his inability to nurture the younger generation.
He said: “These are the people who have been managing the affairs of this country from a political balance point of view for the past 25 years.
“Unfortunately, and I’m sorry to say this, they’re the elites who can effectively take over, along the same platform that we’ve based this policy on. So we couldn’t develop a young group.”Today. ”
Mr. Okupe warned the North against supporting another southerner against President Tinubu in the 2027 elections, saying such a person would remain in power for another eight years before a northerner could claim the presidency again. He pointed out that such a person could cause further problems in the northern region.
He praised the reforms under President Tinubu, saying the pain was temporary and the benefits would soon begin to emerge.
“Today, Bola Tinubu did not make poverty an issue and did not use it as an excuse for not getting an education. There is a loan fund that he promised to implement in his plan and it is now operational,” Okupe said. said.
He concluded that “where reforms occur, they are not without temporary pain, and without pain there is no gain.”
