Vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 polls, Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed, has hinted that the presidential ticket of the African Democratic Party, ADC, may be zoned to the South.
On Thursday, a coalition of opposition forces formally adopted the ADC as its platform to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2027 general elections.
Baba-Ahmed, however, wondered what would happen to the presidential aspiration of presidential candidate of LP in the 2023 polls, Peter Obi, and former Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, if former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, decides to vie for the ticket, which is against the principle of zoning.
Baba-Ahmed stated this on Prime Time, an Arise TV programme, just as Rotimi Amaechi, who spoke on Politics Today, a Channels TV programme, insisted that by adhering to the zoning arrangement, a Southerner must be re-elected in 2027.
Speaking on the issue of zoning, Baba-Ahmed said: Let us come back to this unwritten understanding in Nigerian presidential politics, which is rotation. The North spends eight years and the South spends eight years. I am speaking from experience because I was directly involved, and it was part of my campaign speeches in 2022-23.