Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, has declared that the issue of rotational presidency is legitimate and constitutional.
He said, “Let me state that section 14 of the constitution and various sections of the 1999 Constitution, as amended stated that no section of the country should dominate others in terms of positions”.
The Senator further added that allowing the presidency to return to the South in 2023 will douse the tension in the country, revealing that the primary concept of governance is welfare and good governance.
He, however, stated that Nigeria should not be governed in such a way that a particular section will have domineering advantage over others.
“Though the constitution didn’t say specifically about rotation, but logically and through various judicial interpretations, allowing it to rotate is legal and constitutional”
He stated this during the empowerment program of his constituents at the Oluyemi Olukayode stadium in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday.
Senator Bamidele further expressed gratitude to his constituency for supporting him in the last three years, while reiterating to work harder if elected to the upper chamber.
“What I am doing today is part of how to give back to the society. This is not the first empowerment I have done. I have empowered over 5,000 people in my constituency in agriculture, tying and dying and others.
“I have procured 10,000 volumes of books for our students while two ambulances and ventilators were donated to Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital”.
Material distributed among the constituents included mini buses, sewing machines, generating sets, ploughing machines, grinding machines, wheel chairs, tricycles, motorbikes, ambulance buses, ventilators, fertilizers, driers and hilux vans among others.
Speaking further, The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, urged the Ekiti voters to vote for the APC candidate, Biodun Oyebanji during the June 18 poll while saluting the Senator for being a worthy representative and a strong voice in the upper chamber.
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