June 03, (THEWILL) – Ondo State governor and Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, says equity and fairness demand that Presidency should come to the South in 2023.
He also charged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to work hard towards retaining power in 2023, by ensuring that power and Presidency shift to the South.
Akeredolu who stated in a short message via his personal Facebook page on Wedneday, re-echoed the position of his colleagues in the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum that power should be rotated to the South.
The Ondo State governor was announced on Wednesday, as the Chairman of Security and Compliance for the party’s special convention slated for next week.
He warned that the APC must be ready to rotate power so as to retain power.
“To retain power, the party must rotate to the South. APC must rotate power to win the election. APC must work to retain power. We must rotate power to retain power !!! Rotate to the South. Shikena”, the message read
Akeredolu has on several occasions expressed his full support for a Southern president in 2023. He insisted that any political party that fields a northern candidate for 2023 will fail.
Also, Governors of Southern states, have at different meetings maintained that power should shift to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure.
On Wednesday, Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, while hosting former Lagos State governor and APC presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Calabar, insisted on rotating power to the South.
Ayade, who is also a presidential aspirant in the APC, said, “Zoning is a provision of our constitution to ensure balancing. It should not be about ethnic or regional domination, but balancing. It’s the turn of Southern Nigeria in 2023.”
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