2019: PDP zones presidency to the North


ABUJA—AHEAD of 2019 presidential election, the national leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has zoned the Presidency to the North, saying it has learned its lessons and would never repeat any such mistake in future.
The party also said it had drawn a roadmap towards the 2019 general election and for future electoral success.
 This was part of the recommendations of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu-led PDP Post- Election Review Committee, which recommended that in accordance with the popular views expressed in the submissions to the committee, the Presidency should be zoned to the North as it would also assuage any ill-feelings over any perceived breach of the party’s zoning principle.
The committee also recommended that, as a matter of urgency, if PDP must heal inflicted wounds, it should constitute a strong reconciliatory panel made up of party leaders to facilitate the reconciliation of aggrieved members at all levels, just as it recommended that the party reverts to the practice of having two deputy National Chairmen as entrenched in the 2001 Constitution of the PDP.
We’ll bounce back—SECONDUS
Speaking in Abuja, yesterday, while receiving the committee, Acting National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, noted that the party was prepared to bounce back, having lost the March 28 Presidential election to All Progressives Congress, APC, after 16 years as the ruling party.
Secondus, who urged all party members to put the interest of the party above personal ones, stressed that with the present status of the party, it had become imperative for all stakeholders, leaders, elders, groups and members to kill their ambition and sacrifice for the growth of the party.
He said: “The National Working Committee, NWC, has agreed to move this party forward. We will obey the principle of zoning and have agreed that in 2019, PDP presidential candidate will come from the north.
“NWC has agreed that we will never repeat the mistake of the past; we will follow the submissions made by this committee.
“By the time it passes through all organs of the party, we will implement the report to the letter. Today marks a turning point in our struggle in the last 16years; we are now a robust opposition and our senators are in control of the National Assembly. We are the best organized party in the country.
“Some interest groups had tried to scuttle the committee. Our NWC will review and implement the recommendations that are very urgent to it. We need sacrifice, not display of inordinate ambition that will destroy us.
“Members must obey the constitution and follow the principle of zoning. With this, the party’s presidential candidate will come from the North. The party must go back to the principle of its founding fathers.”
On anti-corruption fight
According to Secondus, the anti-graft posture of President Muhammadu Buhari must be holistic. Therefore, the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, should go after former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, as well as other APC governors and leaders.
He also said the non-appointment of ministers by the President, four months into his inauguration, was a gimmick and playing game with Nigerians, adding that he only wanted to be a sole administrator.
Earlier in his address, Chairman of the PDP post-election committee, Senator Ekweremadu, noted that one major reason why PDP lost in the March 28 presidential election was its non-adherence to the principle of zoning.
He said: “In particular, since the last President of PDP extraction came from the southern part of Nigeria, it is recommended that PDP’s presidential candidate in 2019 general election should come from the northern part of the country in accordance with the popular views expressed in the submissions to the committee.”




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