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Home |   About Us |   Contact Us |   Members |   Search |   Subscribe |   Disclaimer |   THE GUARDIAN CONSCIENCE, NURTURED BY TRUTH LAGOS, NIGERIA.     Wednesday, July 14 2004   news   editorial/opinion   policy & politics   focus/record   business   sports   capital market   metro   money watch   energy   maritime   Guardian Chat Click to join the chatroom Zoning Babangida out? SIR: General Ibrahim Babangida needed not remind us, we all know that every Nigerian has the right to aspire to be president (The Guardian, July 5, 2004). What zoning seeks to achieve is to balance that right with the more important need for the Nigerian nation to be at peace with itself. Babangida himself had sought a similar objective, albeit without much sincerity, with his manufactured two-party politics. Because ours is a severely-divided nation, group interest pre-eminently overwhelms individual interest. The most vocal voices for the presidency to shift to the East or North, come 2007, have not necessarily been those of the individuals who will be contesting the position should the principle of rotation be endorsed. It is in the nature of divided societies that groups tend to measure their own successes against those of others, and nothing will ever change that. Every democratic nation has its own process of selecting or electing the national leader, a process which accords with the history and reality of society itself. Zoning with rotation is desirable for Nigeria, and it cannot be left to the discretion of political parties. As one mechanism for achieving peaceful co-existence, it should be entrenched in the national constitution and celebrated as Nigeria's own contribution to federal politics. With time, as it is the case with the developed democratic nations of the world, Nigerians will come to appreciate that one can still make substantial contributions to the economic, political and social life of our nation, without the additional burden of being 'Mr. President'. Anthony Akinola, Oxford, England � 2003 - 2004 @ Guardian Newspapers Limited (All Rights Reserved).  Powered by dnetsystems.net dnet�

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