By Willy Eya

Ahead of the May 21 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, indications have emerged that the party has zoned the positions of president and vice president to the North and South East, respectively.

By the zoning arrangement, while the North will retain the seat of the Senate President, the South South will produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the national chairman of the party.

Daily Sun gathered that in the proposal, the party has zoned the position of deputy Senate President, deputy National Secretary and National Organising Secretary to the South West.

In the document obtained by Daily Sun on Thursday, the South East, apart from producing the vice president, will also have the positions of national legal adviser, national treasurer and national youth Leader.

And, apart from the North producing the President and Senate President, the region will also produce the deputy Speaker, deputy National Chairman and the party’s national secretary.

Other offices zoned to the region include the national financial secretary, national publicity secretary, national auditor and national women leader.

The document proposed that further zoning to the South for the May 21 PDP convention be guided by so many factors.

One is that South West and South South had produced the country’s presidents and that the South East has not and should be given the opportunity for the highest office in the new dispensation.

Another factor is that the South West and South East had produced Speaker and President of the Senate, respectively, while the South South has not produced any of those.

The South West had also produced the national treasurer, national youth leader, national financial secretary as well as the national legal adviser, while the South East has produced national women leader.

Records also show that the South South has also produced national secretary and national organising secretary while the South South and North Central traditionally swap positions in the party’s zoning arrangement.

In the proposed 2016 zoning arrangement, the party stated that in order to give PDP a new lease of life, it was imperative that a clause in the guidelines for the 2016 National Convention be included, barring all those who had served the party, especially during the immediate past tenure of the outgoing National Working Committee (NWC) from contesting for any office in the incoming dispensation.

The zoning arrangement

1 President
North

2 Vice President
South East

3 Senate President
North

4 Speaker South South

5 Deputy Senate President
South West

6 Deputy Speaker
North

7 Chairman of PDP
South South

8 Dept National Chair of PDP
North

And, apart from the North producing the President and Senate President, the region will also produce the deputy Speaker, deputy National Chairman and the party’s national secretary.

Other offices zoned to the region include the national financial secretary, national publicity secretary, national auditor and national women leader

Beremx:
Is that so?

I dey laff!

TANTUMERGO007:

don't tell me you won't vote for an igbo vice-presidential candidate

Beremx:
....and who's gonna be the vice presidential candidate?

TANTUMERGO007:

SENATOR T.A. ORJI

And, apart from the North producing the President and Senate President, the region will also produce the deputy Speaker, deputy National Chairman and the party’s national secretary.
Other offices zoned to the region include the national financial secretary, national publicity secretary, national auditor and national women leader

Beremx:
Is that so?

I dey laff!



Abeg i need to buy APGA membership form. Odi egwu o !

Beremx:
Of all people it's TA Orji? just know that PDP will lose woefully in Abia State.

God forbid!

BeardedMeat:
That arrangement looks good and I don't think it will be better any other way. Please support it. How is your infant doing? [b] It amazes me how you still find time to come here as a nursing mother. [b] NL is truly like opium.

TANTUMERGO007:

What about okorocha

Beremx:
Last time i checked, Okorocha is still in APC. I see Obiano being wooed to join PDP. if he's a candidate, i will vote for him.

PassingShot:




If Igbos and their other wailing zombies would want us to take them serious, PDP should zone presidency to the SE and VP to the North. It is only then some of us will believe they are not the true slaves they accuse SWners of.

MarysMeal:


Brass up. Chinonso is gonna quote you for typing Obianno.

How is my good friend Osinachi?

PAINGAIN:
I must admit, the hausas are the master at politics. They have made this that no matter which party wins an hausa person will still be president beyond 2019. Genius.