Chief Mike Onoja, a senatorial aspirant in the Benue South senatorial district, otherwise known as Zone C has described the 5th term bid of the Senate President, David Mark as a breach of zoning formula.
Onoja said there was need to observe the power sharing formula in Nigeria’s political system as enshrined in the PDP constitution.
DAILY POST observed that the senate president is angling to return to the Senate for the fifth consecutive time after coming to the red chamber of the National Assembly on the return to democracy in 1999.
Chief Onoja told journalists in Abuja that the Benue South senatorial zone comprises of nine local governments and that since the return of democracy in 1999, David Mark has occupied that seat for 16 years, a situation he said was not healthy for the country’s nascent democracy which emphasises the principle of rotation of political office.
According to him, it is for this reason that the principle of rotation was enshrined in the PDP constitution so that every zone would benefit from the political equation.
Onoja said, “For now, power rotation is necessary in our nascent democracy so that every section will feel the impact of governance. However, there will come a time this won’t be an issue again and one can hold on to power for the rest of his life if voted for; that will be when our democracy has mature to a certain level but at the moment, we are not there yet.”
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