Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has said that his Southern counterparts should not use compulsion to demand power shift.
El-Rufai stated that if the South wants power, it should be prepared to sit with the north, dialogue, negotiate and then agree on who should be voted.
The governor stated this during an interview with journalists to clarify the position of Northern Governors Forum on power shift.
At a meeting in Kaduna on Monday, the governors had said rotational presidency was against Nigeria’s constitution.
They said this in reaction to the demand of their Southern counterparts who have demanded that their region must produce Nigeria’s next president.
“We are not saying there cannot be rotational presidency, it can be done but you have to come and sit with the politicians in the north and dialogue and then we agree to give our support to the south but no one has the right to sit in Lagos or Port Harcourt and say whether northerners want it or not, they must relinquish power to the south, that is wrong, it is not how we do politics and in fact, it is foolish.”
