Ahead of 2023 general elections, a former Nasarawa State Governor and Senator representing Nasarawa west, Abdullahi Adamu, has de-emphasised zoning arrangement, saying it was not in the Nigerian constitution.
Adamu stated this on Monday during an interview with journalists, on the eve of Senate resumption from its long annual recess.
He said in response to a question: “zoning, my answer to you is constitution. Nowhere in the Nigerian constitution that I have, which I read every day like Qu’ran, where it says I should zone any office.”
He said politics was “a give and take” game, adding that “you can’t achieve anything by shouting on roof tops.”
He said further: “you have to get together and talk common sense.”
“Who can tell me the section that says parties should zone the position of president in general election?”, he asked.
He said the constitution was being reviewed now and if anyone wanted a specific provision that
presidential office be zoned, “you tell us how you want it zoned.”
Adamu said: “you can’t talk of merit and talk of zoning at the same time.”
He said there was no zoning in England, colonial powers that colonised Nigeria, “with all the wahala in Ireland, with all the historical facts.”
He said that one of the greatest democracies in the world, the U.S., did not have zoning in its constitution.
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