Nigeria needs competence, not zoning – PDP group tells party

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo

A radical wrong the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, has disclosed that Nigeria astatine this clip needs a competent President alternatively than shutting retired radical connected the guise of zoning the Presidency to the Southern portion of the country.

The group, Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement, GSHM, further disclosed that zoning the Presidency would not resoluteness the situation wrong the enactment but worsen it.

Addressing newsmen connected behalf of the radical successful Osogbo connected Tuesday, the acting State Coordinator, Mr Tajudeen Hassan, said the PDP request to engender factors that would unite it and brighten its accidental successful the 2027 statesmanlike election.

His words, “It is nary longer quality that happenings successful the governmental abstraction successful our beloved state has vividly shown the disparity successful ethnicity and region. This unnecessary spread has been worsened by definite decisions successful our polity. One of those is the zoning rule which has present been fixed truthful overmuch prominence, and forcefully adopted arsenic a criteria successful cardinal governmental determination making.

“It was this aforesaid origin that informed the caller determination of the National Executive Council of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to portion its Presidential summons to the Southern portion of Nigeria, a determination we spot arsenic a grievous mistake and atrocious precedent that could beryllium devastating for the unity of Nigeria. We privation to authorities categorically that we reason immoderate determination susceptible of alienating a conception of the state and further widening the taste part successful the country.

“Leaders of the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement (GHSM) successful Osun authorities privation to usage this gathering to state and restate our unwavering enactment for the statesmanlike aspiration of frontline ideological politician, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim (GOH).We vow to defy immoderate signifier of unconstitutional zoning of the presidency by the PDP. Zoning arrangements undermine the antiauthoritarian rights of each citizens to aspire to elective positions and violates Section 84 of the Electoral Act.

“Nigeria’s existent challenges, including insecurity, economical downturn, unemployment, and nationalist disunity, request a president who possesses some intelligence grounding and motivation condemnation to steer the state toward sustainable progress. We cannot spend to repetition the mistakes of the past. What the state needs present is not zoning, but competence. Dr. Hashim has the quality and imaginativeness to pb Nigeria into a caller epoch of stability, prosperity and unity”.

Also speaking, the Southwest Coordinator of the group, Mr Olaniyi Abass, besides stressed the request for the state to prioritize competence and capableness implicit zoning.

“Restricting the party’s summons to a portion is limiting the chances of the state to get a competent manus to pb the state to the close path. In Osun and the South West, we are moving assiduously to guarantee idiosyncratic similar Hashim emerges to brighten PDP accidental and rescue Nigeria”, helium added.

The station Nigeria needs competence, not zoning – PDP radical tells party appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.