Sahara Reporters
Edwin Clark, an Ijaw national leader, has appealed to those aspiring for presidency in the 2023 general elections in the north to reconsider their ambition.
Clark mentioned specifically former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State, and other aspirants from the north.
He noted that those aspiring for presidency from the north must reconsider their stance for the interest of unity, peace and progress of the country and to avoid “chaos.”
In a statement on Monday by Clark, he noted that the rotation of power between the geo-political zones in the country was to the overall interest and unity of the country.
Clark stated that though the concept of zoning is not written in the constitution, rotation of power is to the best interest of the country’s unity.
The elder statesman said, “Firstly, I wish to use this medium to advise my most respected Peoples Democratic Party chieftains in the persons of former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State, and other PDP aspirants from the north, that in the interest of maintaining the unity of this country to which they have contributed so much, to reconsider their desire of wanting to contest for the presidential election in 2023, because both by the PDP constitution and by convention, it is now the turn of Southern Nigeria to produce the president of Nigeria in 2023, after President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years.”
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