Facts emerged on Friday that governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party are gearing up for a meeting on Wednesday to deliberate on wide-ranging issues including the 2023 presidency and other related matters.gathered that the decision was taken after Thursday’s inconclusive meeting of the party’s Zoning Committee for National Offices headed by the governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
A source at the Enugu meeting said a former President of the Senate, Iyorchia Ayu, during his speech, harped on the need to be careful in decision-making and collate contributions from key stakeholders for the committee to make robust decisions regarding its mandate. Ugwuanyi said, “Our committee is strictly limited to the PDP National Executive offices to be contested at the 2021 PDP National Convention scheduled for the end of October 2021. We have no mandate to zone political offices such as President or Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In this deliberate search for national officers of our party that will help PDP to achieve the lofty ideals and goals of our founding fathers.
A source close to the highest ruling organ of the party said, “The party’s timetable shows that the NEC meeting should come up next week, either on Thursday or Friday. Unless something happens, the meeting should then. Or, just let me say we are going to meet very soon on the matter. The NEC will ratify the decisions reached by both the governors’ forum and the zoning committee.
In a seven paragraph communiqué read by the chairman of Southern Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, at the last meeting, the Forum also supported the position that the collection of VAT falls within the powers of the states. “Apart from that, only the late Yar’Adua had been the president produced by our party from the North. Baba Obasanjo is from the South just like Jonathan. So, what do we do? Southerners are the only one running to be the national chairman of the party now. You could see now why we are in dilemma and why we have a moral burden on the issue.
The aggrieved politicians are some prominent PDP leaders in the state among who were a former Deputy Governor, Hazeem Gbolarumi; former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mulikat Adeola- Akande; Olopoeyan; Nureni Akanbi; Femi Babalola among others. “The meeting prays for a peaceful conduct of the PDP congress which is on Saturday, September 25 through October 16, 2021.
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