Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers state, said rotational presidency had been settled with the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as president-elect.
He expressed gratitude to Nigerians for supporting the shift of power to the southern part.
The governor, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was reported by Channels Television to have spoken on Friday when he joined his counterpart in Oyo, Seyi Makinde, in inaugurating the state’s 5,000,000-litre Aviation Fuel Dispensing Depot at the Ibadan airport in the Alakia area of the state.
The Rivers state governor expressed his happiness that Makinde was one of the people who supported the power shift to the southern part of the country after 8 years of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari is from Katsina state in the northwest geopolitical zone. He had taken over from Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner in 2015.
Wike said: “I have told people that those who fight for change, who fight for revolution may not be directed beneficiaries of that fight, but today, history has it that all of us now are aware that when power finishes from the south, it will go to the north; when it finishes from the north, it will come to the south.”
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