It is the turn of the South to produce the next president, Cross Rivers State Governor Ben Ayade said yesterday.
He urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to respect the zoning agreement between the North and the South made at APC’s inception.
Ayade said zoning was adopted to ensure an egalitarian and equitable power sharing.
The governor spoke when the frontline APC presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, visited him at the Government House, Calabar, the state capital.
Tinubu, former Lagos State governor, was in the state to mobilise delegates for the proposed primary at Eagle Square, Abuja, on Monday.
He consulted with party delegates at Transcorp Hotel, Calabar, where he spoke on his plans for the country.
The eminent politician also visited the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V, who described him as a “great former Lagos governor, a great power broker and a great leader of APC.”
Tinubu was accompanied by Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje; Senator Tanko Al-Makura; Senator Kashim Shettima; former Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba; presidential aide Mallam Yau Darazo, and Chairman of Tertiary Education Fund (TETFUND), Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim-Imam.
Echoing the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum on rotation and power shift to the South, Ayade, who is also a presidential aspirant, said zoning would ensure ethnic balancing. (Nation)