By John Ogunsemore
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kassim Afegbua has urged the North to jettison any presidential bid in 2027.
Afegbua stated that the region should allow its Southern counterpart to complete its eight years in power.
He said this in an appearance on Arise TV on Wednesday.
This comes amid an appeal by Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume for the north not to contest against President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
A former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Afegbua blamed the party for abandoning its rotation principle spelt out in its constitution by giving its 2023 presidential ticket to a northerner, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Afegbua said, “For me, I don’t think the North should bother to discuss 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 centre 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.”