A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has disclosed that he is not a supporter of the idea of zoning in Nigeria’s politics.
The elder statesman argued that zoning has not brought equity and has not impacted governance in Nigeria.
Speaking during an interview with Vanguard, which was published on Sunday, the NNPP chieftain submitted that there’s no form of intimidation that would prevent them from producing an alternative presidential candidate in the 2027 elections.
According to him, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is doing all within its power to compromise opposition parties and ensure they support its candidate or can’t produce an alternative in the 2027 presidential election.
In his words, “Are they doing equity? Have you asked Nigerians on the street if there is equity in what is happening in Nigeria today? The day of reckoning is coming in 2027. I don’t believe in zoning and I have done that because I was a member of the Constituent Assembly in 1987, Constitution Conference in 1994, and I have been a member of the National Conference in 2014. So, I should know better. We designed this constitution.
“I know every letter of it. The issue of importance is whether there is going to be vacancy in 2027. I want to tell you that there is no amount of intimidation by anybody, even at the point of killing, that can stop Nigerians from producing an alternative presidential candidate and I want to say that Nigerians should know it today that they are sending emissaries to compromise leaders of political parties, offering tens of billions to leaders of political parties.”