Zoning not self-defeating but your denial – APC chieftain, Okechukwu replies Atiku

A founding subordinate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Tuesday dismissed a connection credited to erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar that zoning is “self-defeating,” stressing that specified a stance is simply a classical lawsuit of self-denial.

Okechukwu lamented Atiku’s stance, noting that the erstwhile VP, was 1 of the foremost beneficiaries of zoning wrong the Nigerian governmental sphere.

The erstwhile Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, made his remark known successful a authorities successful effect to inquiries from journalists connected Atiku’s position.

He said: “How tin 1 of the foremost beneficiaries of the zoning normal abruptly contradict its profound value successful promoting nationalist cohesion, inclusion, equity, peace, and justice?

“In the nationalist domain determination is passim past the instrumentality with its ineligible teeth and the normal with its motivation weight, governing quality affairs. If determination was nary zoning arrangement, could Atiku person go Vice President?

“Has helium forgotten wherefore helium stormed retired of the PDP statesmanlike superior process successful 2014 and joined america successful APC, aft President Goodluck Jonathan emerged arsenic the party’s candidate?”

Commenting further connected Atiku’s connection that, “The archetypal and astir evident question is this: however does a Southern absorption campaigner realistically unseat a sitting Southern president,” Okechukwu described the remark a...