The struggle for the presidency come 2023 is getting more interesting between the North and South.
The Governors of the 19 northern states on Monday had an opposite view on the issue where the next president of the country should come from.
Southern Governors had in July demanded that power must shift to their region.
The governors met with traditional rulers and other opinion leaders from the region in an emergency meeting in the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, on Monday, saying the southern governors’ call contradicts the provision of the 1999 constitution as amended.
Reading from the resolutions of the meeting, Plateau State Governor and Chairman of the Forum, Simon Bako Lalong, said: “The statement is quite contradictory with the provision of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) as amended that the elected President shall secure at least 25 percent of the votes cast in 2/3 states of the federation. In the case of a run-up, a simple majority wins the election.”
