In an interview with BBC Hausa Service, Bagudu shared his thoughts on the issue.
He also spoke on the insecurity in the country, the ruling party and other issues.
Below is the interview.
Southern Governors had unanimously resolved that the south should produce the next president come 2023. What’s your take on that?
Being chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum chairman, I won’t say my mind but I think people should understand the history as to how leaders were produced in 1999, it was done through unity. PDP and APP were the major political parties at the time. Alex Ekwueme and Obasanjo were the aspirants under PDP, and Obasanjo carried the party’s flag. For us in the APP, we entered an alliance with AD, it produced the presidential candidate in Olu Falaye while APP produced his running mate, Umaru Shinkafi. That arrangement produced both candidates from the South West, and that’s how the region ruled for eight years.