Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, says President Bola Tinubu should be allowed to complete eight years in office.
Okowa, a former senator, spoke on Tuesday on ‘The Morning Show’, an Arise TV programme.
The former governor of Delta recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), with his successor and several political officeholders in the state, in tow.
“But beyond all this, for the stability of this nation, I also do believe that, yes, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was elected president in 2023, and for the stability of Nigeria, it is best for us to have him complete his eight-year tenure, then the presidency can move back to the north,” he said.
“I believe that is the right thing, while not calling it a north-south thing.”
On the subject of zoning and rotation, Okowa said political competition is no longer strictly defined by the north-south divide.
“The politics today may not be about the north-south, because I believe that both from the north and the south, people are competing, and in all political parties, you’re likely going to have people from the north and the south,” he added.
Okowa said the defection of major PDP stakeholders in Delta state was a near-unanimous decision.
“When we went into the meeting, as I did say, we were looking into, could it be the APC, could it be the coalition, and as I say it was a near all decision that we should move into the APC,” he said.
On April 23, Okowa joined Sheriff Oborevwori, governor of Delta, and other PDP bigwigs in the state, to the APC.
On Sunday, Festus Keyamo, minister of aviation and aerospace development, announced that the APC structure in Delta is now fully under the governor’s control.