Don’t Struggle Zoning Arrangement For Selfish Reasons, Ex-minister To Northern Leaders
Osita Chidoka, erstwhile Minister of Aviation, has warned Northern political leaders not to scatter the arrangement of zoning which has profited them, just because of their personal reasons.
He said this on Channels Television yesterday, stressing that the North should align with the zoning arrangement by shifting power to the Southern region.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaThe former minister spoke about the controversy heated in view of the 2023 presidential election.
Chidoka added that it won’t be fair for the North to back out of the arrangement just because it wants to power not to leave it hand. Information Guide Nigeria
According to him, the zoning arrangement in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made sure that past political leaders like Chief Olusegun Obansenjo Alh. Umar Musa Yar’Adua and Dr Goodluck Jonathan had their terms at the presidency.
According to RipplesNigeria, in Chidoka words: “In 2019, because the PDP agreed that it was the north’s turn to do eight years, we all zoned the presidency to the north”.
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“If you notice at Port Harcourt, all the 12 contestants for PDP ticket were northern and vice-president Atiku emerged as the candidate because there was an understanding that this is time for the north.”
He buttressed that the northern leaders should not struggle the zoning arrangement for personal reasons so as not to create ‘an odd situation’ just because they want to hold on to power. jamb results
“In 2023, the country is now again to be confronted. Will northerners, after having benefitted and agreed to this zoning structure, now turn back to say zoning is undemocratic, zoning is not to be accepted in Nigeria, people should canvass to win an election?
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to Canada“Beautiful argument on the surface of it, but it appears to me to be some form of sophistry because the country has developed a consensus that is working.
“I do not see any reason why we should dismantle that consensus that power goes north and goes south.
“It will be such an odd situation if the rest of the country does not find an Igbo man who is in sync with the Nigeria ideal and can be trusted to keep Nigeria going forward together”.
