Africa Business Radio

Governors of the 19 states in the North have opposed the call by their southern counterparts that the Presidency should be zoned to the South in 2023.Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, says zoning the office of the President as being agitated by southern governors is against the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.They stated that any president elected must meet the constitutional requirements which include scoring the majority votes, and polling at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in two-thirds of the 36 states of the Federation.Governor Lalong noted that although some northern governors had endorsed power shift to the South, the regional governors collectively condemned such calls.