The lawmaker representing Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District, Senator Chris Ekpenyong, has said that contrary to claim by Governor Nyesom Wike-led G-5 that the South must produce the next President in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it was the turn of the North to do so going by the party’s rotation process.

He explained that given the zoning arrangement, power is expected to shift to the South-East after the tenure of Atiku Abubakar.

Ekpenyong, who said this in a statement, said it’s unfair to use the All Progressives Congress, APC, template in assessing PDP’s rotation arrangement, saying since Buhari is from the North, it would have been unfair if the party zoned its presidential ticket to the same North.

He added that of PDP’s 16 years in power, the South spent over 13 years.

His words: “They are arguing that rotational presidency is the way to go based on the ar­rangement of the party’s constitution. Fair enough, yes, but cur­rent circumstances will not make that possible because that arrangement was altered in 2010 during the Yar’Adua presidency.

“Now, the PDP, before we were voted out in 2015, spent 16 years in power. Of the 16 years, the South used 13 years. Former President Uma­ru Yar’Adua, who took the Northern slot in 2007, only spent two years and 25 days before his demise.

“His deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, from the southern part of the country, completed their tenure and had another four years. With that, the South used 13 years and some days out of the PDP’s 16 years’ reign.

“So, with this explanation, on what grounds will the PDP have to zone it to the South again? Logic demands that it goes to the North. Which re­gion produced the last presi­dent under the PDP before the party lost power?

“We all know it was the South. That means, we are right having our presidential candidate from the North. This is the strength of fairness that some Southern stakeholders are canvassing

“In APC it is a different case. Their last presidential candidate and current president of Nigeria is from the north. So, it would have been wrong to bring another presidential candidate from the north again, which is opposite from what ought to play out in the PDP. We are two different parties, with different ideologies and we can’t use the template of another party to carry out the activities in our party because it will amount to injustice.

“Even based on the six geopolitical zones In our party, three have produced presidents, three are yet to produce. These are the North-East, North-Central and South-East. In the spirit of fair play, PDP Presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is from the North-East, meaning after him power will shift to the South-East and later come back to the North-Central. This is the definition of equity.

“Two out of the three geopolitical zones of the south have produced presidents in our party. Chief Olusegun Obansanjo (1999-2007), South-West; Goodluck Jonathan (2010-2015), South-South; while none of the geopolitical zone in the north has had a complete tenure of four years except Umaru Yar’adua (2007-2009); North West. Before we stand in the house of God to talk about integrity, let us first define what equity, justice and fair play should be. Integrity should not be blackmailing people to do what you want.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/12/g-5-agitation-equity-demands-presidency-goes-to-north-in-pdp-ekpenyong/

Well spoken like a true slave…we know it’s your pocket you’re only concerned about. Let Atiku mikano come and take power to the north make we see.

Good..


But power must come to the south...

Southerners are the dumbest people on this planet.

This I have seen.

Nigeria is a useless contraption where you will never find any atom of justice.

Some are shouting power should shift to south for fairness and justice but shouldn't the power be zoned to Southeast for equity and justice?

Clowns

My brothers and sisters, make una no too vex for me. Na hunger cause am. My name na Wasiu Adebutu...if you add Barrister, na you sabi. I was recruited by Tinupoo to promote propaganda online. I accepted the job because my legal profession was no longer putting food on my table due to the bad economy. They pay us 30k every month or 10 Naira per comment. I just have to do this job or else hunger will finish me and my 6 children. Abeg make una sorry for me.

Northern Senatorial district Lagos

Hunger induced statement

Hear yourself Senator.

Anywhere belle face

"Calabar" man don talk him own finish.

Actually, this makes sense.

Obi will retire most of you come February next year

The fools of the Niger will come and call him slave.

Vote Peter Obi for president

Someone should explain words to these people in their mother's language. The message is clear candidate and party chairman can't come from the north simple.

So PDP is now a country right? MUMU man......

ridbell01:
Someone should explain words to these people in their mother's language. The message is clear candidate and party chairman can't come from the north simple.

Yes the party chairman is from bayelsa South South

Useless southern politicians are never in short demand to be used by their northern counterparts

sotall:


Nigeria is a useless contraption where you will never find any atom of justice.

Some are shouting power should shift to south for fairness and justice but shouldn't the power be zoned to Southeast for equity and justice?

Your Fatherland is a "useless contraption"? With your own mouth you stand condemned!

Shameless, "anywhere-belle-face" Nigerian politicians!

south or north is the main discussion here, micro zoning to either southeast or northeast (cause those are the two regions that hasn't produced president) is a another discussion entirely.

sotall:


Nigeria is a useless contraption where you will never find any atom of justice.

Some are shouting power should shift to south for fairness and justice but shouldn't the power be zoned to Southeast for equity and justice?

Kewtt:

Yes the party chairman is from bayelsa South South

Ayu is from South or you mean the labour party chairman?

Can u see dis f**lish and stvpid akwa-ibom man

What is just and equitable is for the right person to be elected

His explanations was not wrong

The way southeast people carry Jonathan matter for head 2015. Now the south south are not only betraying the ibos but supporting a northerner

Hehehe is all I can say. �

That is a simple fact that the truncated Yaradua presidency threw up and the visionless so called leaders in the PDP didn't anticipate back then.
That to have a smooth rotation the candidate presented for elections not only has to be physically fit and alive to complete his tenure but remains electable if not the wheel of 'rotation' collapses.

The PDP mismanaged its opportunities back then, it now has to flow with the rotational schedule of its opponents which is threatening to polarise it. For if it had presented a southern candidate for 2023 it will have demoted itself into a regional party, a defacto 'southern party' with perhaps 13+8 : 3 year ratio of south v north leadership.

So they are damned having presented Atiku and will have been damned if Wike won the primaries. Both scenarios will have imploded the party. Heads or tails, the party is in a quagmire.
Lesson for others.
Present a fit, and able candidate that will at least complete the 8 year cycle or else.....

Too bad for you, it's not about what's right for a political party unanimously kicked out in 2015 for gross underperformance and impunitive corruption spree by over 75% of Nigerians. This is about Nigeria herself and justice and equity demands a southerner more appropriately, an Igbo man becomes the next president of Nigeria.

True but.

Nigeria is bigger than PDP.