The ‘Northern’ blackmail of Nigeria

By Femi Aribisala

I HAVE never voted in a Nigerian election.  I have only ever voted once, but it was in Britain and not in Nigeria.  As a Commonwealth student in England in the 1970s, I was allowed to vote for the re-election of Harold Wilson’s Labour party.  However, I am seriously thinking of casting my vote, for whatever it is worth, in Nigeria’s forthcoming elections in 2015.  There is only one reason for this.  I am determined that a “Northerner” must not be the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.