Lagos, Osun Stakeholders Reject PDP Zoning, Back Olawepo-Hashim For President

The agitation against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s zoning statement gained caller momentum during the week arsenic stakeholders successful Osun and Lagos States staged rallies, declaring the zoning look “null and void.”

They adopted Dr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, arsenic their preferred aspirant.

In Osogbo, the rally converged astatine the City Hall and was led by the South West coordinator of the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement (GHSM), Abass Olaniyi.

The participants argued that zoning has outlived its usefulness and should nary longer dictate governmental choices successful Nigeria.

“The epoch of part is implicit successful Nigeria. What the state needs present is competence, capacity, and a unifier similar Gbenga Hashim,” Olaniyi declared.

In Lagos, different rally attracted PDP section authorities and senatorial territory officials, alongside erstwhile authorities Party Executives.

The lawsuit was coordinated by the Lagos authorities GHSM coordinator, Hon. Ola Azeez and reinforced the rejection of zoning arsenic a obstruction to credible leadership.

Speaking astatine the Lagos rally, Azeez insisted that the alleged zoning mistake would not deter the movement.

“The epoch of part is implicit successful Nigeria. This is simply a caller epoch of competence and capability, and Gbenga Hashim stands gangly arsenic the awesome of that caller vision,” helium said.

In the past week, abstracted property statements from PDP stakeholders successful Oyo and Ondo besides rejected zoning, with analysts informing that the mounting absorption is already triggering a large interior realignment successful the enactment up of the adjacent wide elections.

This absorption is not constricted to the South West. Similar pushback has emerged from the bluish portion of the country, peculiarly successful the North Central and North West.

In the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the PDP section officially adopted Hashim arsenic person and campaigner of the enactment and successful Plateau state, stakeholders marched to the PDP secretariat to cull the headquarters’ determination connected zoning.

In the North West, particularly successful Kano state, PDP stakeholders person besides voiced steadfast absorption to the zoning arrangement, insisting that the enactment cannot spend to sideline competence and broad-based acceptability.