He stated this on Wednesday at the Government House in Lafia, the state capital, when he received supporters of Senator Umaru Tanko Al-Makura calling for the ex-governor to become All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman.
Governor Sule stated that having benefitted from power rotation, it would be unfair of him to denounce the same.
“That is why, from all indications, I have never said anything against the agitation for rotation of the presidency to the South. It’s because I don’t think it’s a bad idea for peace in Nigeria if there is a rotational presidency,” Sule said.
He also stated that for fairness and peace, if the presidency is zoned to the South, the APC national chairmanship should be zoned to the North.
“The Northeast has the Senate President, currently. It will not be ideal again to have the chairman from that zone. The only zone that is ideal to occupy that position is the Northcentral,” he said.
Newsmen reports that some other governors in the North, including Babagana Umara Zulum (Borno), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje (Kano), and Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina), have publicly backed a president from the south.
