Nigeria’s unofficial power-sharing deal, is a militant against exalt excellence and meritocracy, Senator Dino Melaye said on Friday.
“After 60 years of independence, it will be myopic, porous, parochial, archaic, and analogue thinking to still be talking about zoning,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today amid debates over the zoning of the presidential seat.
“We must graduate from a mediocre society to a meritorious society where the best foot is being put forward.”
The former lawmaker argued that in most developed countries of the world like the US, power-sharing deals like zoning are not practiced.
He recalled his attempt to introduce a bill baring the usage of state of origin in Nigeria, maintaining that the country should be a “stateless” nation.
“Instead of having the quota system and saying some states are at disadvantage, we should open the space to merit as practiced in other civilised climes across the globe,” he insisted.