Two months after their May 11 meeting in Delta State tagged the ‘Asaba Accord’, the Southern Governors Forum, yesterday, met in Lagos State where it declared that Nigeria’s next president should be from the southern part of the country. The class of 17 governors in the now famous ‘Lagos Declaration’ unanimously agreed that the presidency of Nigeria be rotated between Southern and Northern Nigeria. The incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, from the Northern region will complete his two terms of eight years by May 29, 2023. Those absent without representation were Anambra and Cross River State governors, Willie Obiano and Ben Ayade respectively. Adebanjo also lauded the courage with which the governors took the resolutions to tell the Federal Government the blunt truth.

Source: The Guardian July 06, 2021 04:41 UTC