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| Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose |
Aformer governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose says he will only support a southerner to emerge as President in 2023.
Fayose is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atiku Abubakar, a northerner is the presidential candidate of the party.
He was one of the presidential hopefuls of the opposition party.
The former governor in a series of posts via his official Twitter account said considering the fact that the incumbent Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, is “a two-term northern presidency”, power must shift to the South in 2023.
He added that the constitution of the PDP recognises zoning and asked Nigerians to “await details soon”.
He said, “The PDP Constitution provides for a rotational Presidency. Section 3(c) provides that the Party shall pursue its aims & objectives by ‘adhering to the policy of the rotation & zoning of Party & Public elective offices in pursuance of the principle of equity, justice and fairness’.
“The current President of Nigeria is a 2-term Northern Presidency, thus implying that it MUST be a Southern Presidency in 2023 or NOTHING. Awa ‘South’ lo kan’. Nigerians should await details soon.”