Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, says southern governors have all agreed to oppose any political party that field a northern candidate for president in 2023.
Akeredolu, who is the chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, made this known yesterday, in interview during a television programme.
The governor said the Forum has unanimously agreed that the 2023 presidency must be zoned to the region for the sake of justice and fairness.
He said, There are about three political parties that are in the Southern Governors Forum, we have APGA, PDP and APC. All of us are unanimous in our position that the next president of this country must come from the south.
It is not a political platform. I believe that any party that picks somebody from the north would have to face the whole southern region, southern government, because they would not support it.
But it has to come from the South. We are saying that there must be what I will call rotational. The justice of it, the fairness in it, that is what we are preaching.
If my president??President Buhari??has been in office for eight years, so it cant be from the north, the next president must come from the South.
There are many people that are competent. We have competent people in the North as we have competent people in the South, so the president can come from any part of the country.
Recall that the Forum had earlier resolved, in two separate meetings, that the next president must emerge from their region.
