Opinion: Revisiting “Zoning and Rotation”, By Edwin Madunagu
In place of the present office of the president, let there be a Collective Presidency or Presidential Council of six equal members, each member representing a geopolitical zone. The tenure of the Council should be four years and the headship within that tenure should rotate between the members every eight months.
It should be conceded, however, that it was not all the main factions and tendencies in this re-united but nonetheless non-homogeneous class that adopted the principle of “zoning and rotation” — or, more correctly, promoted it to a lead ideological principle.
This agreement was scheduled to be first tested in late 1981 or early 1982 when party congresses and the process of nominating candidates for the 1983 general elections were scheduled to begin. The test collapsed disastrously. The national caucus of NPN was not able to confirm in practice what had been agreed on paper. Neither the grouping of offices nor the rotation of the groups of offices could be confirmed.
The immediate inspiration for this particular article came from a media statement made recently by Senator Shehu Sani on the movement of Nigeria’s presidency in 2023. Shehu Sani is recognised as a consistent human rights activist and a progressive Nigerian politician. In 2015 he contested and won the Kaduna Central senatorial seat on the platform of the then rising All Progressives Congress .
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