JUST IN: PDP zones national chairman to north. Why it matters

The Zoning committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday zoned the national chairmanship position of the party to the northern part of the country.

This means the presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections of the PDP would have to come from the southern part of the country.

Wiht the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) likely to tow the same part as the PDP by zoning its presidential ticket to the south, the next president is most likely to come from the southern part of the country.

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The Chairman of the zoning committee of the party and Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi disclosed the development at the end of a meeting in Abuja on Thursday.

According to the chairman, the decision of the PDP Zoning Committee is in line with the constitution of the party on zoning and rotation of party and national offices in the interest of justice, equity and fairness.

Ugwuanyi explained that the National Zoning Committee of the PDP was given the mandate to zone national offices to be contested by all PDP members at the PDP National Convention scheduled for October 30/31 2021 by the National Executive Committee.

He noted that the mandate of the committee does not include zoning of the offices of the president, vice president and other executive and legislative offices of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Ugwuanyu said the decision of the committee to zone the party offices does not in any way affect the executive and legislative offices in Nigeria.

He however added that the party has not announced its decision on the presidency, vice presidency or other executive and legislative positions.

The Chairman continued: “Zoning of offices in PDP has traditionally been between the North and South of Nigeria. Consequently, the current offices being held by officers in the southern zones of the country should swap places with the offices currently in the northern zones of the country.”

The governor stated that the committee would pass on the recommendations to the National Executive Committee of the party through the National Working Committee.

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