The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has kicked against the idea of zoning of political positions.
In Nigeria, political offices especially the presidency are rotated on the basis of geographical zones.
However, during the Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, El-Rufai insisted that no country progresses with such an arrangement, instead every qualified person should be given equal opportunity to contest for political positions.
He said: “There is no country in the world that has made progress in the last 50 years that rotates its leaders. I think if we move away from this fixation about distribution to selecting or picking the best person to get the job done… when the job is done, everybody benefits.
“Right now, we are distributing this and we are not making any progress because the focus is on distribution.”
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