APC chieftain Kassim Afegbua has urged the North to allow the South to complete eight years in power, criticizing the PDP for disregarding its power rotation principles by fielding Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 elections......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>
His statement aligns with comments from SGF George Akume, who suggested Northern politicians, including Atiku, should refrain from contesting against President Tinubu in 2027. However, Atiku, through his aide Paul Ibe, dismissed Akume’s remarks, arguing that Tinubu’s performance so far does not warrant reelection.
According to Afegbua: “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 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.”
