At long last, the Peoples Democratic Party PDP may have finally taken a decision on the controversy surrounding the zoning of its 2023 presidential ticket. According to the Daily Trust, the 37-man committee chaired by Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, charged with the responsibility of coming up with an acceptable zoning arrangement has resolved to throw the presidential ticket of the party open to all aspirants.

Prior to the purported decision of the zoning committee to jettison zoning, stakeholders of the party from the North and South have been polarised over the issue. While PDP stakeholders from the South have insisted that the ticket be zoned to their region, their counterparts from the North have been urging that the party jettison zoning.

However, the Daily Trust is reporting that majority of the members in the zoning committee have agreed that the race for the presidential ticket of the party be thrown open.

A member of the committee from the North who spoke to the newspaper said since the ultimate goal of the party is to win the presidential election, majority of them have agreed to go for a zero zoning arrangement. The member claims what the country is looking for is not zonal president but a Nigerian president that will reinvigorate the cohesion and unity of the country.

One factor that may have led majority of the committee members to throw out zoning.

The 37-man committee is made up members drawn from the 36 states of country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This means the North has majority over the South in terms of numbers. The North has 19 states plus the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), while the South has 17 states. Considering the position of Northern presidential aspirants on the issue of zoning, getting majority among the committee members to side with the Northern presidential aspirants and agree to a zero zoning arrangement will be easy.

Pdp has thrown it open for over 2 years now.. since the Yoruba media wants to manipulate .. taunting igbos . .. and igbo too have “ smartly “ fallen into it.. shouting power should come south.
Everyone now playing sophisticated diplomacy

Just say you have zoned it to the north because there is no way Southerners can compete against them in pdp

It's quite a pity that yorubas brought us into this kind of cowardice politics through the backdoor.

They said gej was bad but didn't want a fellow southerner to replace him because of their greed now north can keep aligning with any of east and west to scruttle power from both parties when it's southern turn

The Yoruba Media has tried and failed to manipulate the PDP out of Winning Politics . I will advice the PDP to go with a SE VP that is formidable, Possibly from the bunch contesting for the presidency at them primaries.

No mkpurumiri will ever near asorock

Winning is more important than Zoning

kingsways:
Winning is more important than losing

So a Southerner in the PDP can't defeat a Southerner the APC will present?

Why attack a Nigerian of great repute like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Mkpurumiri. That's a step too far in politics my dan Allah

triple996:
No mkpurumiri will ever near asorock

It will be a big Ask in my Opinion, No sentiments, we have the numbers in the North, Politics is about Interests and that's all

Parachoko:
So a Southerner in the PDP can't defeat a Southerner the APC will present?

pavoda:
It will be a big Ask in my Opinion, No sentiments, we have the numbers in the North, Politics is about Interests and that's all

Jonathan defeated Buhari in 2011.

Without the APC, he would have defeated Buhari again in 2015.

Why voting for another Fulani as president 2023 is dangerous ........