Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has expressed a view contrary to what President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew and associate Mamman Daura, recently said concerning the 2023 presidential project.
Daura had sparked a controversy when he told BBC that competence, rather than any rotational rrangement should determine who becomes President in 2023.
El-Rufai, however, said on Saturday that it was the turn o the South to produce the next president, saying the rotational arrangement should stay.
“In Nigerian politics, there is a system of rotation, in which everyone agrees that if the north rules for eight years, the south will rule for eight years.
“That is why I came out and said that after President Buhari has been in office for eight years, no northerner should run for office. Let the Southerners also have eight years.
“If you look at how I am, I don’t take anyone to work with me for the zone he came from. The eligibility I look at is if who is entrusted to the public will hold it properly.
“It has been said that I have loved the presidency since I was a minister in the FCT. This is nonsense. I do not want the Nigerian presidency. God gives power, whether you like it or not, if He wants it, He will give it to you, but I have never sought the presidency of Nigeria, no one can say I have ever sought it.”
