2023: El-Rufai says presidency should go to South after Buhari
El-Rufai maintained that the Presidency should rightly return to the Southern part of Nigeria.
Vanguard quoted him as saying: “The general political consensus in Nigeria is that the Presidency should rotate between the North and the South. It is not written but everyone understands it. “President Yar’Adua died in office and it was compulsory for Jonathan to continue but when 2011 election came, there were many people who insisted that Jonathan should step aside for a northerner to complete the tenure of Yar’Adua but I opposed it because I didn’t think it was proper for an incumbent that got there not by his own design should be stopped from contesting when the constitution has not barred him from running.
El-Rufai a chieftain of APC, added that presidential candidates are chosen on the basis of merit and general acceptance.
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