Excerpt from a very important old article showing how Edwin Clerk, Ndi Igbo and co opposed zoning/rotation in 2011.


The solution so far provided before 1998 when Nigeria began to prepare for civil rule has been unsuccessful. Hence, the PDP in 1998 considered it very important to provide a political ideology-solution that will address the fear of domination or access to the presidency. That solution was the zoning principle. It states that all ethnic groups in Nigeria within the PDP can have access to the president position on a rotatory basis for a maximum eight years at a time. Its key objectives are to guarantee political equity and accommodation in Nigeria. To achieve its smooth implementation, the PDP divided the country into six geo-political zones, three each to the South and North. Indeed the PDP zoning principle is the only genuine political ideology of the party that makes it different and relevant in Nigerian politics today. It provides a democratic understanding for power sharing in a federation of diverse and different peoples that need to be equally fairly treated, respected and accommodated.

Based on this principle, the South was allowed to rule and it enjoyed its full eight years presidency from 1999 to 2007. In 2007, power was rotated or shifted to the North and Jonathan (from the South) became the Vice President (VP) of Nigeria with late Yar’Adua (from the North) as president and the full circle of this latter tenure is 2015. Unfortunately, we lost our president just after about three years in office. The periodic price the North has to pay for the untimely death of Yar’Adua is the loss of one year to Jonathan. It is therefore preposterous, illogical and deceitful for some people to say that Yar’Adua’s death “has naturally re-ordered the course of the zoning system…” It did not! By PDP’s zoning principle, the North is still entitled to the remaining four years to 2015. To progress as a political group, Nigeria must be patient and allow political principles be. If Jonathan contests and succeeds to become president on 29th May 2011, he would have destroyed this beautiful idea and will unnecessarily cause unquantifiable damage to the political development of Nigeria under the PDP leadership. This certainly will be a very sad, ugly and sorry history for the South-South in Nigeria. Jonathan must know that principles build; greed and sentiments destroy.

http://saharareporters.com/2010/08/11/zoning-don%E2%80%99t-kill-jonathan

Pigs

Greedy opportunist pigs

Even buhari and Liar Mohammed have stopped blaming GEJ.
Move on OP

The zoning policy has really caused a lot of political instability in the country as a result of disagreement among politicians but in spite of that it still brings
about development of democracy

For many decades, presidential politics in Nigeria has been
saddled with ethnicity or tribal politics, religious intolerance and more recently
electoral malpractices, well meaning and patritic elements in the polity had
wrested with the idea of the best formula that will guarantee peace and
stability in the country.

President Jonathan has nothing to do with "killed zoning"

That's under Pdp as a party

helinues:
That's under Pdp as a party

Q.E.D PDP is a part of dishonourable people.

richidinho:
Atiku is coming

to your village abi?

richidinho:
Atiku is coming

He will rule you in Biafra

This Zoning palava no dey rest ni