APC agrees on zoning for convention presidency
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has agreed to alternate offices between the north and south in the forthcoming dispensation.
This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) after their meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Disclosing this while responding to questions, Kaduna state Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i dispelled reports of division among the APC Governors.
APC agrees on zoning for convention presidency
He said: “We have agreed a zoning formula for all the six geo-political zones.
“Essentially, northern zone will have the positions the south have had in the last eight years. And vice versa.
“It is a very simple, equitable and fair formula.
We will now go back and consult at the zonal level and look at the positions that are available and the process of the convention preparation we started in earnest.
“So, by the grace of God, on the 26th of March, we would have done our national convention.”
The Kaduna State governor also said, “We are committed to ensure that the Peoples Destruction Party doesn’t come back to power.”
Eighteen of the governors that were in attendance at the meeting are those of Yobe, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Cross River, Kaduna, Lagos, Borno, Niger, Gombe, Osun, Kebbi, Anambra dep, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kano, Imo, Kogi, Ogun, and Plateau states.
The outgoing deputy governor of Anambra state was also in attendance.
It was the governors of Ondo, Katsina and Zamfara that were not present during the briefing.