An advocacy group, The Advocacy for Rotational Leadership (TAROL), has urged the Kogi State Social Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Alhaji Muritala Ajaka, to withdraw his suit seeking the Supreme Court to nullify Usman Ododo’s election as governor of the state.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, TAROL’s national coordinator, Prince Ene Okon, said that by withdrawing the suit, Ajaka would help entrench the much-cherished ideals of rotational governorship that most stakeholders in Kogi State are clamouring for.
Prince Okon noted that since the dawn of democracy in 1999, Kogi East, where Ajaka hails from, had occupied the governorship seat for 16 years and that it would be proper for other constituent parts to have their fair share to promote a sense of belonging, peace, and unity in the state.
“We hope that after Governor Ododo has completed his constitutional limit of two terms in office, all political stakeholders in Kogi State will come to a consensus for the governorship seat to move to Kogi West before going back to Kogi East to begin another round of rotation”.
“This is the same thing we are advocating for Benue and other states where the majority ethnic groups have held onto the governorship seat as their birthright to the neglect of other component ethnic groups in the state,” the statement added.
It further called on states to take a cue from Cross River and Enugu states, where the governorship is rotated among the three senatorial districts to ensure that every part is equal in the state’s leadership.
