Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has affirmed that for a power shift to the south in 2023, an agreement must be reached between the South and Northern regions.
The Southern governors’ forum had met in Enugu and decided the country’s next president should come from the southern region, as it is in line with politics of equity, justice, and fairness.
However, in reply to their demand, the Northern governors’ forum, which held an emergency meeting on Monday, said it was unconstitutional for them to make such demands.
El-Rufai, while clarifying the standpoint of Northern governors, said that no one has the right to sit in any part of the country to make such a request, which he described as ‘foolish’.
According to him, “We are not saying there cannot be rotational presidency, it can be done but you have to come and sit with the politicians in the north and dialogue and then we agree to give our support to the south but no one has the right to sit in Lagos or Port Harcourt and say whether northerners want it or not, they must relinquish power to the south, that is wrong, it is not how we do politics and in fact, it is foolish.”
