Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris
Ngige, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a gentleman
agreement on rotational presidency.
Ngige, speaking with ThisDay, said the decision was taken to
ensure the stability of the country.
The minister, however, admitted it was not written into the
ruling party’s constitution.
“It is not written in our constitution. But it will make for stability and fairness if it rotates back to the South. I was in PDP, we practiced it.
“I was one of the wise men that drafted the APC constitution
with Chief Segun Osoba as head. That’s what we agreed on; that we don’t have to
insert it but these are things that could be done by gentleman agreement,” he
said.
Ngige also revealed that this agreement, was what guided APC
during its presidential convention where President Muhammadu Buhari emerged in
2014.
“Whether there should be rotation, zoning or not for me is a
simple matter. It is a gentleman agreement. Even the American constitution
doesn’t have everything written in it,” he added.
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