BREAKING: PDP’s Dithering Over Presidency Zoning Threatens Party’s Electorial Chances, Says Comrade Warmate

Comrade D. Z. Warmate, leader of the Concerned PDP League (PDPL), has said his group would not keep quiet but continue to speak out until and unless PDP does the right thing on zoning.

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been dithering over the issue of zoning the Presidency to the South, and Comrade Warmate tried to contain his frustration. Comrade Warmate wondered how much longer would the Ayu-led NWC and NEC take to caucus and embrace the imperatives of fairness, justice, and inclusiveness as the endodiment of zoning and critical cornerstones of internal party democracy. The PDP leadership should pluck up the courage and zoned the presidency to the South, inorder for the party to redirect its focus on pressing national issues like the daily killings of Nigerians, the excruciating economic situation, et al. 

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Comrade D. Z. Warmate, Leader of the Concerned PDP League (PDPL)

While addressing our reporter, warmate came from a very unique and interesting angle that no one has ever articulated in the ongoing zoning debate or argument.

“What is unequivocal in the letter and unmistakably in the spirit of PDP Constitution is that zoning is to promote equity, fairness, justice, inclusivity, peace and national consciousness.”

“So those that are clamouring for zoning to be jettison do not have good intention for the party. Because, if zoning is jettison, it then means one of the major instruments needed to pursue the aims and objectives as clearly stated in section 7 subsection 3 is destroyed. PDP cannot afford to destroy its own tools that should be used to achieve its own aims and objectives. Zoining is enshrined in PDP constitution, therefore jettison it will required a special convention to do so.
(3) The Party Shall pursue these aims and objectives by- 
(c) adhering to the policy of the rotation and zoning of Party and Public elective offices in pursuance of the principle of equity, justice, and fairness;
Whatever rule of interpretation we may seek to adopt in the circumstances whether golden, plain, or mischief we will only arrive at one meaning for that subsection, equity, justice, and fairness with all intents and purposes.
The letter and the spirit of the Constitution clearly stated that the party shall adhere to the principles of rotation and zoning in pursuit of “the principles of equity, justice, and fairness”.

The argument about throwing the presidency to all is put forward mala fide, it is nothing but a self-serving argument of those who stand to benefit from the shenanigan and not in the context of what the PDP Constitution seeks to redress.

It is trite and a common understanding generally among Nigerians that the south should produce the next president. The dilly dallying over the zoning issue is making our great party lose sight and focus on a lot of national issues like the recent killings in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Imo, et al, and this is presenting the party as insensitive to the plight and pain of Nigerians. 

This has continued to attract backlash from a renowned activist Deji Adeyonju. See a screenshot of just two (2) of his blast on PDP.

When we gazed at the issues in our great party, we made self-conscious efforts to ensure that our judgments are not mediated by the primordial, geographic, cultural, religious, etc. lenses that to people naturally, but by our sense of what is true, just, and fair.

We have been consistently critical of our great party leaders. The records bear us witness. It’s nothing more than the good old philosophy of holding people in power to account and the love for the party.

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