The South East Zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it stands with the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum “that the Office of the Presidency should be zoned to the Southern part of Nigeria”,insisting that the next president of Nigeria should come from the southern part of the country.
It also directed that the existing zoning patterns in states and constituencies of the zone must be strictly observed and adhered to in every state and constituency of the zone.
Zonal Chairman of the PDP in the South East Zone, Chief Ali Odefa stated this while addressing Newsmen after the Zonal Executive Committee (ZEC) meeting of the PDP, held in Enugu, and attended by Governors Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, the National Secretary of the Party, Senator Sam Anyanwu, former Abia State Governor, Senator TA Orji, members of the State and National Assemblies, members of PDP National Executive Committee (NEC) from the South East, Board of Trustees (BOT) members, the National Vice Chairman (South East) among others.
Chief Odefa disclosed that it was unanimously agreed thatw the PDP should zone the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Southern part of the country ahead of the party primaries.
On the issue of zoning at the state and constituency levels in the zone, the PDP National Vice Chairman stated: “We said where there are existing zoning patterns they must be strictly observed and adhered to in every state and constituency”.
“We also went ahead to make interventions for our members who are holding political and elective positions in Anambra State who didn’t defect to other political parties in the time of the election but stood by the party (PDP) in times of bad weather, that they should be given support to return back to their various offices”.
