A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and former governor of Ogun state, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, said ex-governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had the right to contest for the position of president in 2023.
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as an individual has the right to put himself forward; we have not zeroed in on an individual. Zeroing in on any individual will destroy our efforts now but Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has a right to pursue his own agenda,” Osoba said in response to a question on Arise Television programme on Tuesday.
He declared that it was imperative for the South-West to unite and put its home in order to achieve success in race to the nation’s presidency in 2023.
He said there was a gentleman’s agreement in the APC that the South would produce Nigeria’s president in 2023 after the North must have had its two terms of eight years, which President Buhari is serving out in 2023 on the APC platform.
Observing that there has been so much noise agitation from the Southeast zone, Osoba said that nobody had contacted him yet over interest in the presidency in 2023.
He said that the gentleman’s understanding on the issue of rotation of the presidency vis a viz the national chairmanship position of the APC, which was reached during the merger process in 2013 subsisted.
He stated that the Southern part of the country comprising southwest, southeast and south-south geo-political zones, would produce the presidential standard bearer of the APC in 2023.
He, however, reiterated that it was a gentleman’s understanding devoid of compelling provisions of the Nigerian constitution.
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