**we made a mistake by conceding power to the South in 1999.
The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Professor Ango Abdullahi, has never left anybody in doubt about where he and his group stand on the issue of 2015 Presidency.
The group in a release, demanded that the North must produce the president in 2015. Speaking to newsmen, Prof Ango Abdullahi declared that, “there is no going back on the presidency returning to the North in 2015.”
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This leads credence to a similar statement from a Northern elder, former governor of Sokoto State and a chieftan of the All Progressives Alliance (APC), Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, famously telling TELL magazine, that “we want our power back!”.
Alhaji Bafarawa lamented that the North made a mistake by conceding power to the South in 1999. This, in truth, is a popular sentiment in most parts of the North till today. There is a feeling of frustration and marginalisation in the Nigerian power equation.
It is not difficult to understand why. If President Jonathan wins in 2015, that will take him to 2019, meaning between 1999 and 2019 - a period of 20 years - the North will have been in power for only the three stricken years of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who died in office in 2010. But Southerners will say the North was in power for 36 years between 1960 and 1999 and should, therefore, not complain, having dominated for so long.
Northerners will fight back by saying those were mainly years of military rule, not democracy. Southerners will say whether it was military or civilian, it was de facto power which clearly shaped the economic and political structure of Nigeria. The argument never ends. - Hope For Nigeria.
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