Former Governor of Cross River
State, Donald Duke, has said that he is not a supporter of zoning of the
Presidency.
Duke, while speaking on Hard Copy
anchored by Maope Ogun on Channels TV, said, “I have never subjected myself to
zoning, when I ran for Governor I was not afforded zoning, everybody and
everyone was able to run in Cross River.”
He maintained that, “Besides its
my constitutional right to run, you can’t zone my right, I think it’s
unconstitutional to zone.
“Besides. like I said to you I
was born a Nigerian, I wasn’t born an Easterner or Westerner, I was born after
Independence. So my outlook is Nigerian.”
Concluding, the ex-governor said
Nigeria was in dire straits and should jettison zoning and go for the best.
It could be recalled that
Chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition
Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) flayed Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti sSate
for declaring his intention to run for Presidency in 2019 against the
zoning arrangement of the two major political parties in the country.
See video below:
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