By Jubril Bada

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The Chairman of the Yoruba Ronu Group (YRG) Prince Diran Iyantan, has cautioned politicians promoting the concept of ‘northern presidency’ to desist .

He added that those  engaging in this seek to further polarise the country for more troubles than the ones on hands at present.

This was contained in a statement made available to The Hope by the Director of Communications of the group, Mr. Steve Bayode at the weekend.

He said ‘southern presidency in 2023, should be considered sacrosanct to the continual unity of the nation.

Iyantan submitted, further, that the Nigerian political elites are deliberately promoting disunity as political weapon, which he opined, was a dangerous trend capable of creating unending crisis in the country.

” Act like that, clearly, demonstrates negative imagery of the country and is capable of misleading the country on a journey of departure from peace and prosperity.

“Politicians, during  elections’ season, must focus on positive areas pertinent to uniting us as a nation. Everyone must ensure that what is passed across to the public are materials that enhance national peace, unity and development in view of the critical time the country is passing through.

“Favourable unifying comments are what should be promoted in the media to ensure that tensions are not further exacerbated,”Iyantan said,” He urged politicians to observe decorum during campaign activities.

He added that “The rank and file of our political class must shun acts capable of promoting disunity. We must ensure that words said by us are those that project cohesion, but not chaos. We must express our love for this country rather than emphasise on tribal and religious differences and generative of wrong belief in deluding a section of the country to appear superior to others”.

“The only major factor to the sustenance of unity in the country is continual rotational presidency. The falsehood preached around that the ‘southern candidates do not have the numerical strength to win an election’ must be jettisoned for the unity of our dear motherland.

The PDP’s ploy to not, officially, zone the presidency to the Southern part of the country would, eventually, boomerang. Any southern candidates fielded by any political party will be massively voted for by the southerners to emerge as the next president.