{
  "id": 9948712,
  "title": "2027: Shehu Sani urges Atiku, other northerners to respect rotation, allow South complete eight years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/2027-shehu-sani-urges-atiku-other-northerners-to-respect-rotation",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-26T08:49:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/912534-2027-shehu-sani-urges-atiku-other-northerners-to-respect-rotation-allow-south-complete-eight-years.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, has urged Atiku Abubakar and other northerners to respect the informal principle of rotational presidency in Nigeria. According to Sani, the South should be allowed to complete an eight-year presidential tenure before power returns to the North. He stated that allowing the South to complete this cycle would make it easier for a northern candidate to take over in 2031.\n\nSani emphasized that Atiku Abubakar has the constitutional right to contest the 2027 presidential election, but argued that political considerations around power rotation should guide the contest. He suggested that southern candidates should be allowed to compete for the presidency in 2027, with the winner serving a four-year term. Sani proposed that parties such as the African Democratic Congress should field candidates like Amaechi, while the NDC and APM should field Peter Obi and Makinde, respectively.\n\nThe former senator's comments come as a call for adherence to the rotational presidency principle, which has been informally observed in Nigeria. According to Punch, an Atiku Abubakar victory in 2027 would effectively end this principle.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Punch",
        "title": "El-Rufai paying the price for his misgovernance — Shehu Sani",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/el-rufai-paying-the-price-for-his-misgovernance-shehu-sani",
        "published": "2026-09-25T20:54:40.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Post Nigeria",
        "title": "El-Rufai paying price of irresponsible leadership as Kaduna gov – Shehu Sani",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/el-rufai-paying-price-of-irresponsible-leadership-as-kaduna-gov-shehu",
        "published": "2026-09-26T06:54:18.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}