…Says governor ‘lacks the moral justification to clamour for power shift to South’
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, of Ogun State, has been advised to stop misleading his southern counterparts in their quest for power shift to the region in 2023.
Speaking with newsmen yesterday over the controversial issue of zoning of presidency to the southern region of the country, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Garus Gololo, said there was no part of Nigeria’s Constitution where zoning is enshrined.
Gololo further said Akeredolu, who failed to deliver the party at the presidential election in 2019 and as such, lacked the moral justification to clamour for power shift to the South in 2023.
Recall that Akeredolu had earlier reacted to the Northern Governors’ resolution on zoning the 2023 presidency to the southern part of the country, saying his Northern colleagues have expressed and indeed exercised their rights under the freedom of expression.
He, however, said that Southern Governors remain resolute on their demand.
Recall that Akeredolu, during an interview he granted on a recent television programme, threatened that any political party that fields a northern candidate for the presidency in 2023 would risk losing the support of southerners.
In his reaction to the Ondo State governor’s comment, the former Coordinator of Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association, said Akeredolu, as a legal icon should have known better, saying, there was no provision for zoning in the 1999 constitution of Nigeria.
Golo pointed out that Akeredolu who failed woefully to deliver his party at the presidential election in 2019, lacked the moral justification to clamour for power shift to the South in 2023.
“Where in the Constitution of Nigeria or of any party did he see that zoning is enshrined?”, he queried. “He knows so much of our law, so I don’t expect him to mislead his colleagues in the South”, he added.
Gololo, however, acknowledged that there are eminently qualified persons in the South, as much as they are in the North, who could take up the leadership of the country.
