APC Rotational Presidency: Ngige Reveals When Agreement Was Reached |EXPL0SIVE
Afnews Editor
Aug 08, 2020
Nigeria's Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a gentleman agreement on rotational presidency.
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Ngige, speaking with ThisDay, said the decision was taken to ensure the stability of the country.
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The minister, however, admitted it was not written into the ruling party's constitution.
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"It is not written in our constitution. But it will make for stability and fairness if it rotates back to the South. I was in PDP, we practiced it.
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"I was one of the wise men that drafted the APC constitution with Chief Segun Osoba as head. That's what we agreed on; that we don't have to insert it but these are things that could be done by gentleman agreement," he said.
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Ngige also revealed that this agreement, was what guided APC during its presidential convention where President Muhammadu Buhari emerged in 2014.
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"Whether there should be rotation, zoning or not for me is a simple matter. It is a gentleman agreement. Even the American constitution doesn't have everything written in it," he added.
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