Tinubu Dominates Southern Nigeria as Peter Obi, Goodluck Jonathan Struggle to Catch Up – Dele Momodu
Tinubu Has Locked Down the South, Peter Obi and Jonathan Can’t Catch Up – Dele Momodu Claims
Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, has shared his thoughts on the only way President Bola Tinubu can be defeated in 2027.
Speaking during an appearance on Arise Television on Friday, Momodu stated that the only way to defeat Tinubu is to zone the presidency to the Muslim North and the vice presidency to the Christian South.
He argued that Tinubu has already locked down the south, adding that politicians such as former President Goodluck Jonathan and erstwhile presidential candidate Peter Obi do not stand a chance against him.
Momodu described the 2027 presidency as a battle between the north and the south.
He said, “It’s obvious that the ruling government has already turned this into an ethnic battle, and it’s going to be a battle of North versus South.
“That is why you saw PDP and APC apparatchiks all struggling to insist that a candidate must come from the South. They know that President Tinubu has already locked down the South, and nobody, not Peter Obi, not Goodluck Jonathan, will be able to catch up with him where he is right now.”
According to him, President Tinubu’s immense financial resources and control of state structures give him a major advantage, adding that only a strategic counterbalance from the North could tilt the balance in favour of the opposition.
The former presidential candidate also dismissed the notion that such zoning would undermine fairness or the principle of power rotation, arguing that the idea of an eight-year turn for the North and South was not enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution.