Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, says the only way the opposition can defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election is by zoning the presidency to the Muslim North and the vice presidency to the Christian South.

Momodu stated this on Friday while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television, monitored by DAILY POST.

He said President Tinubu had already locked down the South, making it almost impossible for any southern presidential candidate to compete effectively against him.


“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,” he said.

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.