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“After Eight Years Of Buhari, Presidency Should Return To The South” – Governor El-Rufai

Tobias Sylvester
By Tobias Sylvester
Published: February 24, 2020
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"After Eight Years Of Buhari, Presidency Should Return To The South" - Governor El-Rufai 1

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai said that at the end of President Muhammadu Buhari‘s administration in 2023, power should return to the south.

El-Rufai said that it is a general understanding in the country that power should rotate between the north and the south in the interest of justice, equity and fair play.

The governor insisted that the North has no justification to remain in power after Buhari’s second tenure unless there is some extenuating circumstances.

Vanguard quoted him as saying: “The general political consensus in Nigeria is that the Presidency should rotate between the North and the South. It is not written but everyone understands it.

“In some of the parties, like the PDP, it is even written down in their constitution but it was breached in 2015. I think that every politician of honour should understand and abide by that consensus except there is an extenuating circumstance compelling it to be set aside. What could this be?

“President Yar’Adua died in office and it was compulsory for Jonathan to continue but when 2011 election came, there were many people who insisted that Jonathan should step aside for a northerner to complete the tenure of Yar’Adua but I opposed it because I didn’t think it was proper for an incumbent that got there not by his own design should be stopped from contesting when the constitution has not barred him from running.

“In the APC, we deliberately omitted rotational Presidency in our constitution and the emergence of a presidential candidate does not take into account zoning and that was why in 2015, Rochas Okorocha from the East contested, Sam Nda-Isaiah contested, Buhari, Kwankwaso and others contested.”

El-Rufai a chieftain of APC, added that presidential candidates are chosen on the basis of merit and general acceptance.

“I can say that as distinct from the PDP, APC has no rotational Presidency but candidates are selected strictly on the basis of political merit and the general acceptability of the candidate.

“I want to say that those of us from Northern Nigeria honour agreements. We do not violate unwritten political agreements and I will be the last person to lead in violating that agreement. I may have a personal view but that should be the basis. I don’t care where you come from but I look for merit.

“But as a group, the Northern APC will have to sit down and endorse someone, most likely someone from the South, because after eight years of Buhari, I don’t think the Presidency should remain in the north unless there is some extenuating circumstances. But all things being equal, we will honour our agreement and we keep our words,” he said.

 

Meanwhile, Ohanaeze Youths has assured Nigerians that the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will come to an end in the country, if all tribes adopt an Igbo Presidency in 2023 with a Northerner as Vice President.

The group urged other zones to throw their support towards realization of Igbo presidency as it’s the only way to fizzle out the activities of IPOB.

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