The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said although the issue of zoning was more of gentlemen’s agreements, it behoves on parties who entered into such agreements to honour them.
The former Governor of Lagos State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), said this while speaking to reporters covering the activities of the APC, in Abuja, yesterday.
According to him, “The Constitution decides the age at which you can contest certain offices and there is nothing in the Constitution that mentions zoning. Political parties are clubs where you write agreements just like a social club and we can decide that it is the youngest person who will be the Chairman of the Club, or we can decide that it is the oldest person or the next female or the next male, that is the matter of agreement between people.
“But the Constitution that sets up the climate of political parties’ formation does not prescribe zoning. The truth is that what makes an agreement specification is the honour in which it is made, not whether it is written. If it was written there would be no Court cases of breach of contract because it’s a document that is written and signed that goes to court”.
While speaking on the chances of the APC to retain power in 2023, he said, “To retain power in 2023, certainly if we keep our promises, is that simple. That’s politics. If you do what you said you will do even if you don’t do 100 per cent and they see that you are making progress, they will even want you to finish something you started.”
He maintained that opposition political parties in Nigeria currently have not shown the capacity to upstage the APC.
