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By Akpan David, Calabar
Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Barrister Alphonsus Eba has maintained that the power rotation witnessed in the state since 1999 will be legalized.
Eba spoke to journalists at the APC state Secretariat in Calabar that the party will sponsor a bill to the state House of Assembly, so that it can be entrenched in the state statutes.
Henceforth, he disclosed that it is going to be criminal for any parts of the state to clamour for political power when it is not yet their turn.
There have usually been disagreements over power rotation, many arguing that zoning is not a law in the state; that zoning gives room for incompetence to thrive.
Eba said, “We are going to frame a bill that will make zoning arrangement or power rotation between the three senatorial districts to be legalised. The state assembly where we also have members of the other party will deliberate on the bill
“The law will seek to criminalise anyone or district seeking governorship but whose turn has not come.
“This way, after eight years of Prince Bassey Otu’s administration, our people in the central senatorial district can be very certain that nobody will wake up from other districts to struggle power with them. Thereafter, by that imminent law, power will rotate to the north in 16 years from now,” he said.
