An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Kassim Afegbua, has insisted that the south must complete eight years in office before power shifts to the north.
Speaking to Arise TV, Afegbua criticized the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for what he described as a failure to adhere to its constitutional provisions on power rotation.
Afegbua stated that Article 7, Section C of the PDP’s constitution mandates a rotation of power to ensure equity and balance.
He accused the party of abandoning this principle during the 2023 elections by fielding Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.
Afegbua further argued that the South should be allowed to complete its eight years in power before the presidency can return to the North.
His words: “For me, I don’t think the north should bother to discuss about 2027 for power to be ceded to them.
“If you recall, one of the reasons I canvassed for a southern presidency in 2023, was because Alhaji Atiku Abubakar decided to change the political narrative of the PDP.
“Article 7 of its own constitution, Section C, stipulates that there should be a rotation of power.
“In an effort to railroad the polity into presenting an Atiku, seeing him as someone who can defeat the APC, they decided to package him, and since then, the center cannot hold up to now.
“So, when you have that kind of scenario, where a party is not able to follow the normative order of its own constitution by virtue of its own provisions, then you have this kind of scenario of trying to push the political algorithms.
“The South must be made to complete its eight years, then power would now go to the North.”
