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Osita Chidoka: The north has benefitted from power rotation

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Former minister of aviation, Osita Chidoka says the northern part of the country has benefitted from power rotation, and as such, the arrangement should be maintained.

Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday, Chidoka said Nigeria is faced with the question of whether to honour the presidency zoning arrangement between the north and the south.

The former aviation minister chronicled how the PDP agreed on zoning arrangements between the north and the south, which he said led to the emergence of former presidents like Olusegun Obasanjo, Umar Musa Yar’Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan.

He added, “In 2019, because the PDP agreed that it was the north’s turn to do eight years, we all zoned the presidency to the north.

“If you notice at Port Harcourt, all the 12 contestants for PDP ticket were northern and vice-president Atiku emerged as the candidate because there was an understanding that this is time for the north.”

Chidoka said the northern elites’ argument that zoning is undemocratic is not tenable, seeing as they have benefited from zoning.

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