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| NSGF Chairman, Gov Simon Lalong |
The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has described the position of their southern counterparts that power should shift to the South in 2023 as against the spirit and letter of the nation’s constitution.
The forum in a resolution read by its chairman and governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, in Kaduna, on Monday, at the end of an emergency meeting, reiterated that though some northern state governors had earlier expressed views for a powershift to three geopolitical zones in the South, the forum unanimously condemned the statement by the Southern Governors’ Forum that the presidency must go to the South, saying, the statement was contradictory with the provision of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
“The statement is quite contradictory with the provision of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) as amended that the elected President shall score the majority votes; score at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in two-third states of the Federation. In the case of runup, simple majority win the election,” it said.