Ondo State governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu says the All Progressives Congress (APC) must look southward in picking its presidential candidate for 2023 election.
The governor, who has been vocal about his position on his choice of presidential candidate, doubled down on his agitation for southern presidency in 2023 on Thursday.
He averred that the APC must retain power by rotating the presidency to the southern part of the country in the 2023 elections.
“APC must work to retain power. We must rotate power to retain power !!! Rotate to the South. Shikena,” Akeredolu wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.
Akeredolu’s admonition comes as the ruling party preparation to pick a presidential candidate at a special national convention billed for June 6-8 in Abuja enters top gear.
President Muhammadu Buhari told APC governors on Tuesday not to stand in his way of picking his preferred successor.
The demand has since caused ruckus among party faithful who see it as a plot to retain power in the North. Buhari had long been portrayed as a clannish and parochial leader who readily offered the most important federal positions to persons from his northern base.
Akeredolu’s latest take re-echoes a Southern Governors’ Forum’s resolution in July 2021 where they insisted that the next Nigerian president must come from the South.
It is however not clear if the governors still hold their demands sacrosanct.
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