"THE REASONS WHY THE NORTHERN NIGERIA WANTS THE PRESIDENCY BACK IN 2015"

The election of President Olusegun Obasanjo to the presidency of Nigeria in 1999 through the PDP was politically possible because of the gentlemen agreement of the rotational and zoning policy of the PDP and the massive support that Olusegun Obasanjo received from the Northern Nigerian voters in the 1999 presidential election. Nigerians should never forget that Olusegun Obasanjo did not have the needed political home base in the Western Nigeria or the votes of the Yorubas to win that presidency in 1999. The election of the late President Yar'Adua in 2007 continued this political pattern of rotational presidency within the PDP until his sudden death in office in 2010. The presidency of Nigeria then fell automatically into the hands of Jonathan Goodluck based on the Nigerian 1999 constitution. 

The personal decision of President Jonathan Goodluck to seek another presidential term at the expiration of the uncompleted presidential term of the late President Yar'Adua was considered a political slap on the Northern Nigeria and a direct violation of the PDP's unwritten gentlemen political agreement of rotational presidency. This political development around the presidency of Jonathan Goodluck set into motion the PDP's internal crisis and the President Jonathan Goodluck's second decision to contest again in 2015 for another presidential term has now finally culminated in the division of the one PDP into two different PDPs today in 2013 (the old PDP and the new PDP). No matter what happens at the end of the day in the divided PDP. 

The internal political crisis that has plagued the PDP will never be over as long as the Northern Nigerian elements in the PDP want the presidency of Nigeria back in 2015 and President Jonathan Goodluck is 100% bent on seeking another constitutional presidential term in the Aso Rock villa in 2015. The year 2015 and the natural element of time will both remain the most important determinant factors for the final outcome of this ongoing political war inside the PDP for the presidency of Nigeria.