2023: Gbong Gwom Jos, Kogi Monarch Favour North Central Presidency
BY CHAMBERLAIN ODEY, JOS – The Chairman of the Plateau State Traditional Council and Gbong Gwom Jos, His Majesty, Jacob Gyang Buba, and the Paramount ruler of Olamaboro Traditional Council of Kogi state, Chief Simeon Ujah have called on the people of Nigeria to give the North Central minorities opportunity to produce the next President of Nigeria in 2023.
This position of the two royal fathers was made known on Monday when the Olamaboro Monarch, Chief Ujah paid a courtesy call on Da Gyang Buba at his Jishe Palace in Jos.
The Olamaboro Monarch told his host that the minorities of the North Central region are the umbilical cord that is keeping Nigeria one, having fought gallantly during the civil war to keep Nigeria together.
Chief Ujah said, the zone should be supported to take a shot at the Presidency in 2023, saying that the North West zone has produced late President Shehu Shagari, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and the incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, while the North East produced Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as Vice President for 8 years, leaving the North Central zone with nothing in the political leadership of the country.
The traditional ruler went further to stress that by 2023, both Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would have summarily spent 16 years as President and Vice President from the South West, and wondered why some persons from the South West region should be eyeing the Presidency again in 2023.
Chief Ujah also said the Igbos of the South-East have produced late Chief Alex Ekwueme as Vice President during the second republic and therefore called on political chieftains from the North and South West to look towards the direction of the North Central region in 2023 for the sake of equity, justice, and national cohesion.
He also stressed that the North Central zone is seen as the headquarters of poverty in the country today because it doesn’t have personalities among those calling the shots at the top in Nigeria to speak for them.
He wondered for how long the people of the zone would continue to serve as appointees and Minister of State in government while some other states are given juicy ministerial appointments simply because of their majority status.
Responding, the Jos monarch, Da Jacob Gyang Buba said he agrees totally with the Olamaboro Monarch agitation that for the sake of fairness and justice for all, the North Central should be supported by all to produce the next President in 2023.
Gyang Buba said; “This is possible in the ensuing dispensation and can be achieved through consultation and dialogue”.
