PDP Zones National Chairmanship To North
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has zoned the position of the national chairman of the party to the north.
The Chairman of the party’s Zoning Committee and Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, made the announcement on Thursday after the meeting of the committee in Enugu.
Ugwuanyi said other positions within the National Working Committee (NWC) will be swapped between the north and the south.
Going by the tradition of the party, if the national chairman is picked from the north, its presidential candidate will come from the south.
He said the committee was not asked to decide the zoning of the presidential ticket.
“The mandate of the committee does not include zoning of offices of the president, vice president, and other executive and legislative offices of the federal republic of Nigeria.
“The decision of the committee to zone the offices of the party does not in any way affect the same executive and legislative offices in Nigeria. The zoning of offices on PDP has traditionally been between the North and the South of Nigeria.
“The decision of the PDP zoning committee is in line with the constitution of the party on zoning, and rotation of party, and national offices in the interest of justice, equity and fairness. Consequently, the current offices being held by officers in the southern zone of the country, namely south-west, south-east and south-south zone should swap places with offices currently in the northern zone of Nigeria namely north-west north-east, north-central zones,” he told journalists.
