2023: South East Not Ripe For Presidency – APC Chieftain

Hon. Kunle Okuno­la, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that to ensure that the power rotation system remains in the South in 2023, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinu­bu should be supported to take a shot at the presiden­cy.

Okunola made the re­mark on Thursday in Lagos during a youth programme organized by Grassroots Project for Good Gover­nance (GPGG) targeted at sensitising youths to get actively involved in politics.

The former Lagos State Organizing Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that it was on record that Tinubu out of the 36 State governors who emerged in 1999 had re­mained in one party with­out jumping from one party to another as was the case with others, insisting that his consistency and polit­ical stability had singled him out.

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Okunola stated that only APC as currently con­stituted would guarantee anybody leadership of the country in 2023. He main­tained that the South-East would not be able to pro­duce a president in 2023 because none of the states in the region was APC and as such was out of the equa­tion. He stressed that the South-West was the only region which had what it would take to produce the president out of the three regions in the South.

The politician, who is the Convener and founder of Tinubu 2023, Not Nego­tiable (TNN) said that the antecedents of the former governor of Lagos State, as a firm and widely respect­ed politician had positioned him as the best candidate in the South.

He stressed that in the consideration of power rotation, thought must be given to the can­didate that would be sold to Nigerians, maintaining that Tinubu was that can­didate that would appeal to everyone including the Northern people.

The APC chieftain, who warned that he was not speaking from the point of view of a tribalism, noted that the power could actu­ally go to the South-East which he said was long overdue for that but cau­tioned that power would only go to the area where it could be gotten, stating that since there was no APC presence in the region it would be effort in futility to want to experiment consid­ering someone from there.