Do Not Bother About Taking Over Power In 2027 – Afegbua To Northern Politicians

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kassim Afegbua, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of failing to adhere to its constitutional provisions on power rotation.

Afegbua argued that the PDP abandoned it’s principles during the 2023 elections when it  fielded Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.

He opined that the North should allow the Southern part of Nigeria to complete its eight years in power.

He insisted that the South must complete it’s eight years before power goes to the North.

The PDP chieftain stated this during an appearance on Arise TV.

According to Afegbua, “For me, I don’t think the North should bother to discuss 2027 for power to be ceded to them.

“If you recall, one of the reasons I canvassed for a Southern presidency in 2023 was because Alhaji Atiku Abubakar decided to change the political narrative of the PDP.

“Article 7 of its own constitution, Section C, stipulates that there should be a rotation of power.

“In an effort to railroad the polity into presenting an Atiku, seeing him as someone who can defeat the APC, they decided to package him, and since then, the center cannot hold up to now.

“So, when you have that kind of scenario, where a party is not able to follow the normative order of its own constitution by virtue of its own provisions, then you have this kind of scenario of trying to push the political algorithms.

“The South must be made to complete its eight years, then power would now go to the North.”