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Akume Canvasses Power Shift to North From Ademola Adeyemo in Ibadan Benue State Governor, George Akume at the weekend in Ibadan said in order to avoid political confusion in the country, political parties should resolve that power be shifted to the North in 2007. Akume who was in Ibadan to deliver the Annual Alumni Lecture of the University of Ibadan titled "Political Scepticism as an impediment to sustainance of Nigerian Democracy: The view of a sociologist in politics" called for the total professionalism in the Nigerian Armed Forces with officers and men made to strictly accept their roles as defenders of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation. According to Akume, if power shifted to the North in 2007 it will create a kind of confidence in the power sharing arrangement that was introduced to the nation's political system in 1999. Said he "I say this because after our election, the Northern governors were told to support the power shift to the South, which we did on the understanding that in due course it would be again the turn of the North." He said the arrangnment forced the presidential candidates from the north to step down in favour of President Obasanjo's re-election. Akume, a 1978 graduate of Sociology in the University of Ibadan said in order to overcome the problem of scepticism and related issues in politics, "we must endeavour to eliminate those factors that tends to promote them." He also canvassed that the military should be kept out of Nigerian politics through a three-pronged approach of re-orientation of the military, institutionalisatiion of good governance and the sensitisation of the civil society to reject military intercention. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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