{"id":394927,"date":"2021-09-18T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=394927"},"modified":"2021-09-18T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T08:27:34","slug":"2023-we-wont-support-parties-that-field-northern-presidential-candidates-gov-akeredolu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=394927","title":{"rendered":"2023: We won&#8217;t support parties that field Northern presidential candidates &#8211; Gov Akeredolu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has warned that southerners will not support any political party that puts forward a northern candidate for the presidency in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Akeredolu stated this during an interview on Channels Television on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The governor insisted that the presidency must be zoned to the South, for the sake of justice and fairness.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that when President Muhammadu Buhari completes his second term in 2023, his successor should emerge from the South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three political parties in the Southern Governors\u2019 Forum: the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us are unanimous in our position that the next president of this country must come from the South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that any party that picks somebody from the North would have to face the whole southern region because they will not support it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are saying that there must be what I will call rotation. The justice of it and the fairness in it is what we are preaching. If President Buhari has been in office for eight years, it can\u2019t be from the North. The next president must come from the South,\u201d Akeredolu said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(Daily Post)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has warned that southerners will not support any political party that puts forward a northern candidate for the presidency in 2023. Akeredolu stated this during an interview on Channels Television on Friday. The governor insisted that the presidency must be zoned to the South, for the sake of justice and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":394928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,58,8065],"class_list":["post-394927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-pdp","tag-rotimi-akeredelu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/394928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}