ADC leaders have cautioned against what they described as premature zoning arguments. The Chairman of the ADC Chairmen’s Forum and Kogi State chairman, Kingsley Ogga; the forum’s secretary and Edo State chairman, Kennedy Odion; and the Adamawa State chairman, Arabi Mustapha, warned that pushing zoning could weaken the coalition and inadvertently benefit the ruling party.
Ogga urged Obi’s supporters to prioritise the party’s collective interest over personal preferences, insisting that those advocating zoning “do not mean well for the party.”
Echoing similar sentiments, Mustapha said any insistence on a particular zone or aspirant amounted to short-sighted politics.
He said, “My response to them is simple: their thinking is myopic. Let them think far.
“Nigeria has two regions, the North and the South. So, putting a particular interest on someone, for example, a man from the South agitating for Peter Obi, or a man from the North saying Atiku Abubakar, is not what Nigeria really needs now.”
He added that the country required a leader capable of rescuing it from its current challenges, rather than debates driven by regional or personal considerations.
“Nigeria needs someone who will stand on his feet to rescue the nation from where it is. Currently, we don’t have what we call government; we only have people in dictatorial positions of leadership,” Mustapha said.
