The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has agreed to alternate offices between the north and south in the forthcoming dispensation.
The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) disclosed this after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday.
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i while making the development known to newsmen refutes reports of division among the APC Governors but, however, admitted there were disagreements over National convention.
Speaking on the outcome of the meeting, El-Rufa’i revealed that agreement had been reached on the zoning formula.
Explaining the newly agreed arrangements with regards to sharing positions in the party, El-Rufa’i said all offices that were occupied by northerners in the last eight years will go to the south and vice versa under the new arrangement.
“We have agreed a zoning formula for all the six geo-political zones. Essentially, northern zone will have the positions the South had in the last eight years and vice versa.
“It is a very simple, equitable and fair formula. We will now go back and consult at the zonal level and look at the positions that are available and the process of the convention preparation we started in earnest.
“So, by the grace of God, on the 26th of March, we would have done our national convention,” he said.
At the meeting were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha and the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari.
Eighteen of the Governors are in attendance at the meeting taking place at the Council Chambers.
They are from Yobe, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Cross River, Kaduna, Lagos, Borno, Niger, Gombe, Osun, Kebbi, Anambra dep, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kano, Imo, Kogi, Ogun, and Plateau states.
The outgoing Anambra Deputy Governor is also in attendance.