Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has warned that
southerners will not support any political party that puts forward a northern
candidate for the presidency in 2023.
Akeredolu stated this during an interview on Channels
Television on Friday.
The governor insisted that the presidency must be zoned to
the South, for the sake of justice and fairness.
He explained that when President Muhammadu Buhari completes
his second term in 2023, his successor should emerge from the South.
“There are three political parties in the Southern
Governors’ Forum: the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“All of us are unanimous in our position that the next
president of this country must come from the South.
“I believe that any party that picks somebody from the North
would have to face the whole southern region because they will not support it.
“We are saying that there must be what I will call rotation.
The justice of it and the fairness in it is what we are preaching. If President
Buhari has been in office for eight years, it can’t be from the North. The next
president must come from the South,” Akeredolu said.
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