The executive governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde has praised the All Progressives Congress governor from the Northern part for making their ground for the southern presidency.
Oyo governor who made a live appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, said, the northern governors displayed an act of sincerity and unity as they all support the rotation of the presidency.
It will be recalled that, before the party presidential primary, governors and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Northern Nigeria demanded that the presidential ticket of the party be zoned to the southern part of the country,
The governors stated their position in a public statement signed by 10 of them and the leader of the party in Sokoto State, Aliyu Wamakko. Only four northern APC state governors did not sign the statement. Two of them, Yahaya Bello of Kogi and Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa, are among the APC’s 23 presidential aspirants
Makinde did not hesitate to compliment his counterparts of northern extraction in the opposition who expressed support for a southerner’s emergence as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate.
“I must give kudos to the governors on the platform of APC – governors like Governor Nasir El-Rufai [of Kaduna], Governor [Mohammed Abubakar] of Jigawa, Mai Bala Buni [of Yobe], Governor [Yahaya Bello] of Kogi.
“They came together within their party and they said, ‘For the unity of this country, let us sacrifice our ambition. Let the presidency rotate to the South.’ So, we must give kudos to them.
“But what happened at our party? We were fighting ourselves and saying, ‘Our constitution can go to blazes.’ I don’t think that is right,” he said.
In the governor’s opinion, the principles by which he and other G5 members are standing will go down in history.
“The Integrity Governors are not in this to say, ‘We’re trying to prove that we’re right or wrong.’
“We’re standing on a principle and if you stand on a principle, whether you’re right or you’re wrong, may thou be left for posterity because all of this will come and go.
“In another four weeks, the election will have been won and lost, and then we’ll be faced with the judgment of posterity.
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