Despite Zoning, Our Presidential Ticket Open To All – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has formally aligned with the long-held presumption of technocrat and politician, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, by declaring that its zoning statement volition not forestall aspirants from different regions from contesting the statesmanlike summons successful 2027.

PDP’s nationalist ineligible adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, made the clarification connected Arise Television’s Morning Show, stressing that portion zoning remains an important instrumentality for equity, it cannot override the Nigerian Constitution which guarantees each citizens the close to question elective office.

“Even if we portion our statesmanlike campaigner to the South, it volition not halt anybody from immoderate portion of the state from showing interest. We cannot bash things that volition contradict the Constitution of Nigeria, which is the expansive norm,” Ajibade explained.

The clarification mirrors the nonstop statement consistently precocious by the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement, which had insisted that zoning indispensable not beryllium weaponized to exclude competent leaders, peculiarly from the North. According to the group, interior enactment arrangements indispensable ne'er supersede law provisions.

Reacting to PDP’s pronouncement, the South West Coordinator of the movement, Alhaji Abass Olaniyi, described the improvement arsenic “a large triumph for ideology and a vindication of Dr. Hashim’s ideological politics,” adding that the enactment had chosen the way of fairness and inclusivity.

Dr. Olawepo-Hashim, a planetary businessman turned politician, has been wide recognized for his issue-based authorities and efforts astatine bridging Nigeria’s North-South divide. His rising popularity, particularly successful Osun State wherever helium is seen arsenic much influential than President Bola Tinubu, has fueled increasing speculation astir his statesmanlike ambition up of 2027.

With the PDP present aligning with his long-argued position, governmental observers judge Hashim is amended positioned than ever to participate the contention arsenic a unifying fig susceptible of rallying Nigerians astir a imaginativeness of competence, equity, and nationalist renewal.