2023: Senator Shettima Canvases For Power Shift To South

BY TEMI OHAKWE, ABUJA – The former Governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima has made a strong case for power rotation between the northern and southern parts of the country.

This is as he warned that Nigeria must not be allowed to implode, stressing that no country in the continent would be able to accommodate its huge population.

Speaking at the public presentation of an autobiography in Abuja by the Chairman of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund’s (TETFund) Research and Development Standing Committee, Prof.  Emeritus Njidda Mamadu Gadzama, Senator Shettima said that the presidency should shift to the Southern region of the country by 2023 in the spirit of fairness and justice.

In his words; “I believe in equity, justice and fairness. After power has resided in the North for eight years, there is a need for a power shift to the South”.

Speaking in turn at the book launch, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Ibrahim Gambari said that Nigeria will soon overcome it challenges despite the difficult moments the country is passing through.

Gambari called for support for President Buhari’s administration saying it will help better position the country to address all its challenges.

According to him; “We are going through difficult times in our country, economic, security, but let us recognise that the whole world is going through the same fate. Nigeria is part of the world. But the leadership under which we operate shows we shall indeed overcome all these.

“If we keep united, keep building, we cannot be ignored by any other country in the world. I am convinced that under the leadership of President Buhari there is going to be a better future. He belongs to all Nigerians,” he said.

While presenting the book, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, described Gadzama as a great academic who has impacted massively in the nation’s higher education sector.

Bogoro said Gadzama, who was the former Vice Chancellor of University of Maiduguri and University of Port Harcourt as well as a member of the Nigerian Academy of Science, deserves commendations for his courage, truth and service to Nigeria.

“It takes the truth and courage for things to be said the way they are, but the man Professor Emeritus Gadzama that we know does so with diplomacy even when he said the truth with courage,” Bogoro said.