Olusegun Obasanjo
Senator Femi Okurounmu, a national conference delegate representing the South-West yesterday told confab members that former President Olusegun Obasanjo did not win the 1999 Presidential election.
Speaking during a heated debate among members of the Confab Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government on rotational presidency and other key positions in the country, Okurounmu said his kinsman, Obasanjo came into power through powers that be who planned and executed his victory so as to reduce the tension caused by the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election which was said to have been won by the late businessman, Chief MKO Abiola.
Also lending support to Okurounmu, another member of the committee representing the Federal Government, Senator Nimi Amange said Obasanjo was not the best presidential candidate in the 1999 elections, adding that Nigeria has never had the best as its president. He also condemned the inclusion of rotational presidency in the constitution.
"Our greatest problem is fear and suspicion and that is why we want everything to be in the constitution. Then if we want zoning, we should zone the presidency to all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria so that all of them will enjoy the presidency," Amange said.
Okurounmu who said he was in support of the rotational principle idea as every zone would have the opportunity of producing the country's president, suggested that if the rotational principle is adopted, it should be embedded in the Electoral Act and in the constitutions of the various political parties, stressing that it would protect the interest of the Nigerians at different zones.
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