Former Senate leader, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has kicked against moves by some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to push for the zoning of presidency to the North.
According to Ndume, such a move would be akin to demanding a third term for the region.
Instead, he advised the APC to zone the ticket to the South and allow its three geopolitical zones to battle it out during the party’s presidential primary.
Ndume stated this over the weekend, when he addressed members of the Correspondence Chapel in Abuja on the state of insecurity, economy, education and politics in Nigeria.
“I am a founding member of APC. We agreed in principle then that the party will zone presidential ticket to the north.
“That was why Buhari, Atiku and others contested. Only Rochas Okorocha contested from the south. He knew he wasn’t going to win. So, that arrangement was there.
“For me, based on our agreement, the south should produce the next presidential candidate of APC. The north still trying to hold on to that is tantamount to a third term agenda; we should not encourage that,” Ndume said.
