A pan-Yoruba advocacy group, Yoruba Appraisal Forum, (YAF), yesterday claimed that the position canvased by Southern Governors ahead of the 2023 election is tantamount to “overheating the polity” and called for caution over the ongoing national debate on which part of the country will produce President Mohammadu Buhari’s successor.
The Southern governors, at their meeting in Lagos earlier this week insisted that the presidency must rotate to the South in the coming dispensation, a position the YAF claimed is generating needless tension between the North and South.
The group said that the tension being generated by the resolutions of the Southern governors’ meeting with the rest of the country has become a cause for concern amongst all Nigerians.
Already, Northern governors and elders, youths as well as various groups have rejected the position of the Southern governors, particularly on power shift and other demands made by the last Monday in Lagos.
The Yoruba coalition alleged that some powerful politicians and individuals have leveraged on the issues to mobilise traditional rulers and groups from different ethnic nationalities to agitate in support of the position of the governors.
