Olawepo-Hashim kicks against zoning 2023 presidency

Olawepo-Hashim

The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Trust (PT) in the 2019 presidential election, Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has warned that zoning of the presidency in 2023 will be counter-productive.

Olawepo-Hashim, in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Abuja, said that Nigeria needed a good president from any region who was prepared and capable of promoting the nation’s socio-economic development.


He said the issue of rotation or zoning might not foster national unity and development and described the talk of zoning as a false narrative, divisive and inimical to national development.

“This phenomenon is dangerous for national unity, cohesion and national development, and more importantly, rotating president is a pedestrian diversion from the current subject of devolution and decentralisation of power from the over-centralised centre to the federating states in Nigeria.

“Nigeria would not just become a just and equitable federation simply because a southerner is exercising the over-blotted power at the centre.


“It will be more equitable and efficient when the powers are devolved more to the states, regardless of who occupies the office of the President.”

Olawepo-Hashim, a business mogul, said that position of the president “should not be based on tribe, religion or region but on a candidate’s ability to support the social and economic development.

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