2023: The same way the Government explores oil in the South as it’s property, so also it is the right of the South to produce Nigeria’s president – South East Youth

Apex Socio-political Youth Group, The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has said that it is the constitutional right of the South to Produce Nigeria’s next president.

This was according to a statement by the President of the group, Goodluck Ibem . He said the South will not beg for the Position adding that the same way the Nigerian government explores the oil deposits in the South as it’s property so also it is the right of the South to produce the next president of Nigeria.

He described as unconstitutional for the idea of rotation of the Presidential seat to be cancelled out.

He said; “it is unconstitutional, a treasonable offence and a defiant suspension of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for anyone to throw away the rotation of the office of the President between the North and South as encapsulated in the federal character principle in the Nigerian constitution.

“When a particular section of the country is excluded from governance and other political positions, it means automatically that they have been told in plain language that they are no longer part of the country which is invariably a declaration of another country in a country.

“We want our brothers from the North to know that the South is not begging for the position of the President of Nigeria, but it is our constitutional right to produce the Nigerian president come 2023.

“The same way the Nigerian government explores the oil deposits in the South as a property of the federal government, so also it is the right of Nigerians from the South to produce the president of Nigeria come 2023”.