GROUPS STORM PDP,APC HEADQUARTERS DEMAND FOR PRESIDENTIAL SEAT FOR SOUTH

Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Groups on Monday storm the National Headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressive Congress in Abuja in separate rallies demanding the zoning of the 2023 presidential tickets to the South.

The Group appealed that for sustainable peace, national unity and the strengthens democracy, both parties should endeavour to zone the presidential ticket to the South.

The CCSG President, Bassey Williams argued that Nigeria presidential seat has always been rotatory between the South and the North for stability in the country.

“We are convinced that power should naturally rotate between the Northern and Southern region of the country. We also believe that it is by the avowed commitment to this arrangement that we can stop the current ethnographic-religious division being experienced in the country.

“Our visit today is to lend our voice in support of the call for power shift to the southern part of Nigeria. We hereby urge the great men and women of the PDP and APC to heed this patriotic call.

“It is on the strength of this that we march here today in our thousands to submit our position on the imperatives of a presidential candidate of southern Nigeria extraction come 2023 on the platforms of the PDP and APC. On power rotation, we stand.”

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