‘Presidential Ticket’s Zoning Will Reduce PDP’s Chances In 2027’

Some leaders of the Lagos State section of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a radical of supporters of Dr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim’s statesmanlike ambition, person condemned the party’s determination to portion the statesmanlike summons to the South, saying it would impact the fortunes of the enactment successful 2027.

As the enactment has decided to portion the statesmanlike summons to the South, Olawepo-Hashim, a bluish aspirant, vowed to situation the determination astatine the party’s nationalist convention.

He argued that zoning the party’s statesmanlike summons either to the North oregon the South remained unlawful and undemocratic, adding that it would service the enactment nary good.

Speaking astatine a quality league yesterday successful Lagos, Mr Ola Azeez, a PDP chieftain and authorities coordinator of the Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim (GOH) Solidarity Movement, said, “the enactment is connected the way of self-defeat again with the zoning.”

According to Azeez, suppressing the ambition of others would breed different circular of disenchantment and misgivings successful the party, susceptible of disrupting the unity that is gradually returning into the enactment fold.

“The zoning contented is causing problems wrong the enactment already. This zoning statement indispensable beryllium revisited.

“What we should cognize is that zoning is not successful the PDP constitution. We indispensable not let it to ruin our chances again. Let america triumph the statesmanlike predetermination archetypal earlier we speech astir zoning arrangements, governmental offices and different sharing formulas for elective and enactment positions. This (zoning) should travel into play aft winning the predetermination of the president.

“We indispensable unfastened the summons of the enactment to each aspirants, truthful arsenic not to origin different wide exodus from the party, conscionable due to the fact that we are not making our summons competitory and a just contest.

“We respect our nationalist leaders and representatives astatine the nationalist level, but that does not mean they should enforce their ideas of exclusion connected us,” the coordinator said.

According to him, for the 16 years that the PDP ruled the country, the South had implicit 14 years portion the North, wherever astir votes came from, lone had 2 years.

“If the PDP allows the zoning of statesmanlike tickets to the South to stand, that means we are shutting retired the North and it tin beryllium dangerous.

“Why unopen them out? That is unfair. It (the party’s statesmanlike ticket) should beryllium thrown open, fto the enactment members/ delegates determine who they want.

“It is precise unsafe for the enactment to unopen retired 19 states of the state from participating successful the statesmanlike election,” Azeez, the PDP vice president successful Ojo section government, added.