Former Governor of Ogun State and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Olusegun Osoba, has explained why the ruling party didn’t capture North-South zoning arrangement agreed upon by the party leaders before the 2015 presidential election. I believe that the Presidency, for now, for the survival of Nigeria, for the continuation of this country, should rotate between North and South. If you talk of competence, is competence limited to a particular ethnic group or sub-ethnic group? So, the idea that merit and competence should be ahead of zoning… what standard is being used to measure competence? “When we were forming the APC, we agreed that the Presidency would be given to the North and we the progressives in the South-West agreed.

Source: Punch July 15, 2021 10:29 UTC