Presidency: Northerners must wait till 2027 – Niger Delta group

The Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has said that Northerners vying for the most powerful position in the country must wait until 2027 to realize their ambition.

In a statement signed by the group’s President, Nelly Emma; Secretary, John Sailor and Public Relations Officer, Mukoro Stanley,  and released in Warri yesterday, the Niger Delta pressure group said the Igbo region would take over from Jonathan in 2019.

The group said, “We are aware of the desperation of the North to take over power in 2015, but they have to wait till 2027.

“After the tenure of President Jonathan in 2019, power will shift to the East till 2027 and so the North should perish their Presidential ambition till 2027, we are serious about this and that is the way it must be.”

The group advised Northern leaders to join hands with President Jonathan to combat Boko Haram menace in the country and accused the region of sponsoring the insurgency in order to thwart President Jonathan’s chances of re-election. The group said the plot would fail woefully.

“We want the Sultan of Sokoto to know that we are aware of his game plans with some Governors and ex-military Generals from the North to frustrate the re-election of President Jonathan in 2015,” the group alleged.

“We want the Sultan of Sokoto and his co-travellers to take this as a warning that we will resist any attempt by them to stop the President in 2015.

“We are not begging the Sultan of Sokoto, Northern Governors, ex-military Generals and other leaders from the region to allow the President to contest in 2015, stressing that the “issue of the re-election bid of President Jonathan in 2015 is sealed, signed and delivered by God.

“Nobody can stop the moving train of the re-election of the President. The plan by the North to use Boko Haram to frustrate President Jonathan will continue to fail; we have also seen how the enemies of the President are now using the Governors of the North to destabilise the administration of the President and they will not succeed in this their evil mission.”