Senator Neda Imasuen, who represents Edo South Senatorial District on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), has praised President Bola Tinubu for his courageous leadership, saying the south deserves to retain the presidency in 2027.
Speaking during an interactive session with journalists over the weekend in Benin City, the Edo state capital, Imasuen said the president has shown “unbelievable strong courage” in navigating the affairs of the nation and should be allowed a second term.
He also welcomed the recent Supreme Court judgment sacking his kinsman, Julius Abure, as national chairman of the Labour Party, declaring that Abure did not have the party’s interest at heart.
Imasuen, who chairs the Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions, is currently the only LP senator in Edo state.
The other two senatorial seats—Edo North and Edo Central—are held by members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), including former Edo governor, Senator Adams Oshiomhole.
Senator Imasuen hails from the Benin Kingdom, while Abure is from Ward 3, Arue in Esan Northeast Local Government Area, Edo Central.
The representative of Edo South senatorial district, which is a stronghold of the governing APC and the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said: “I am glad to be part of this interactive session. It is a partnership that I seek. Whatever decision or direction I will take ahead of the 2027 general elections, you the journalists will be the first stakeholders to be informed.
“On the 2027 presidential election in Nigeria, the arrangement, whether written or unwritten, is that the North will do eight years, and the South will also do eight years. So, that is the battle, that is where they will be faced with the roadblock. At some point, the Northerners will agree with themselves and say let the South just finish its eight years. I do not worry about it, because it is an arrangement that is spoken or unspoken.
“There is an understanding between the North and the South. Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari was not someone whose policies I admired. As far as I am concerned, he (Buhari) did little or nothing as Nigeria’s president in eight years of two terms, but as bad as that was, everybody closed their eyes, and let him do his eight years. Even the Northerners that are agitating now, they saw Buhari, but they did not clamour that power should be taken from him, and they allowed him to do eight years. So, it is not different now that we have a President (Asiwaju Bola Tinubu), who is actually doing well.
