Power rotation, best arrangement for Nigeria —Amosun

Former governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has backed rotation of power in the country, in the interest of peace and unity.

He said this while hosting party faithful and well-wishers at the Ake Palace Pavilion to mark his 68th birthday, on Sunday.

Amosun, who administered the state from 2011 to 2019, threw his weight behind the reelection of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu into office in 2027.

He noted that the late President Muhammadu Buhari administered the country for eight years, and insisted that the South should be allowed to complete the years.

“In the interest of Nigeria, we should observe the rotation. The south has been waiting for its turn, and with President Tinubu at the helm, we’re on the right path.

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“Rotation in the sense that if the North takes the presidency this time, the South will have to take it the next time. The last president from the North was President Muhammadu Buhari. He did how many years? Eight years. 

“Now it is our turn in the South, and we have in the South president Tinubu. Is there now someone representing all of us in Nigeria, primarily, but he’s from where? Southwest, so it’s representing all of us in the South. So it’s indeed it is a good idea for anybody who loves Nigeria to agree that whatever we are doing, we should respect that rotational arrangement. 

“And that is why today, just like what I said when we were having our convention that time, that not only in the interest of maybe even Asiwaju now or even any of us but in the interest of all of us in Nigeria.”

“So I want to inform all of you I have read a lot of things but I want everybody to know if we say A is our A, if we say B it will be B we told them that we are what we are, and in any case in this Ogun state how can they talk about APC without talking about Amosun. 

“With all respect to all our leaders and our elders, I think probably the only person that will say in this Ogun state when we are forming APC I will say it’s in the forefront in Olusegun Osoba, when you take Osoba who will you take next is me, and that is why you do not destroy what you build,” he added.

Earlier, the former governor had visited Correctional facilities across the state, while interdenominational prayers were offered at his residence in Abeokuta.