APC Must Shift Power In 2023, Tinubu’s Man Warns

By Chuks Ekpeneru

As controversy rages in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) over the region to produce the President in 2023, a former  Chairman of the party in Lagos State, Chief Henry Ajomale, has warned the party not to abandon the unwritten agreement.

He said there was an agreement among leaders of the party in 2015 that power should rotate between the North and the South.

He warned that contravening the agreement would spell doom for the party.

According to him: “Fashola is not only right  but  it is also very thoughtful of him to remind our party leaders about this agreement  at this point in time. I was part of the meeting where that agreement was reached, and it will do our party a lot of good if we can keep to the terms of that agreement as anything contrary may portend doom for APC,” the long time Tinubu associate told Saturday Sun.

“The general expectation is that after President Muhammadu Buhari must have completed his tenure in 2023, then power should rotate to the South. It is a gentleman’s unwritten agreement, and we should be honourable by keeping to that agreement. If we do anything contrary, it will do APC a lot of incalculable damage.’’

Ajomale said the South will  resist any attempt by any group or individual  from the North to scuttle the agreement.

He spoke against assertions by the director-general of the Progressives Governors Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukman that the party would not zone the 2023 presidential ticket.

“We in the South will not fold our hands if any group or individual attempts to derail this arrangement. We know what the South did, especially the Southwest to ensure that Buhari emerged as the president in 2015. Before then he had contested and lost on more than two occasions. It was when he entered into an alliance with the Southwest leaders that it became possible for him to win the presidency. So it will be unfair to deny the South presidency in 2023,” he declared.

He said not only APC but the country will pay dearly for it if the gentleman’s agreement is truncated.

“Any plot to keep the presidency in the North in 2023 will backfire. Those Northerners alleged to be making such moves should stop it because if they continue, it is an evil plot that will have consequences  not only for the APC but also for Nigeria as a nation. I will therefore advise any Northerner involved in such plot to stop because it will have ugly consequences,’’ Ajomale declared.

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