2019: You can't zone my constitutional right - Donald Duke reacts

macfranc007 October 11, 2017 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Nigerian newspapers 24/7 Oluwatobi Bolashodun

- Former Cross River state governor, Donald Duke speaks on zoning presidency to north

- The two-time governor said he feels it is unconstitutional to zone

- He maintained that his constitutional right can't be zoned

The former Cross River state governor, Donald Duke, has said that he is not a supporter of zoning of the 2019 presidency to the north.

Duke, speaking as a guest on Channels TV programme, Hard Copy said: “I have never subjected myself to zoning, when I ran for governor I was not afforded zoning, everybody and everyone was able to run in Cross River.”

“Besides its my constitutional right to run, you can’t zone my right, I think it’s unconstitutional to zone.

“Like I said to you I was born a Nigerian, I wasn’t born an Easterner or Westerner, I was born after Independence. So my outlook is Nigerian.

I think we have a constitution , whatever arrangement you make must be subject to that constitution”

Duke added that Nigeria is in dire straits and should jettison zoning and go for the best.

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Earlier, NAIJ.com reported that former Governor of Abia state, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu maintained that the north must complete its two-term of eight years, adding that Igbos and other tribes should wait till 2023.

New Telegraph reports that Kalu told Journalists on Monday, October 9, after a closed-door meeting with former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida at his uphill mansion, Minna that if President Muhammadu Buhari does not run in 2019, then another northerner should emerge.

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Kalu said that: “If Buhari would not want to contest the 2019 Presidency like I will always say and maintain my position, northerners should be allowed to complete their second term making it eight years.

2019 Presidency: Nigerians reveal why they prefer Atiku to Buhari - on NAIJ.com TV.