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Written by Leon Usigbe, Jacob Segun Olatunji and Idowu Samuel, Abuja<\/span> Wednesday, 27 July 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

THE Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has apparently turned down the request of its chairman and former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,<\/p>\n

that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal and other principal officers of the House should resign within two years to allow for the proper implementation of the zoning arrangement of the party.<\/p>\n

The former president presented his recommendation to the board at its meeting, which was also attended by President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday night, at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, but met a brick wall, when those in attendance unanimously kicked against the attempt to revisit the issue which they claimed had already been laid to rest with the emergence of the House officers.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo had argued the need for the BoT to pressure Tambuwal and others to resign in 2013 to pave the way for the South-West, to which the PDP had zoned the post of the speaker, to take over the position otherwise, the zoning formula in the PDP should be taken as dead.<\/p>\n

He had argued that zoning \u201cis that policy that brought me up as president in 1999 and brought President Yar\u2019Adua up in 2007 and you up in 2011. It has given us some element of predictability, stability and order.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cI, as the chairman of the BoT, decided to point the attention of the party and the government to this issue, not because it affects the zone, which by accident of birth I come from, but because it has grave implications for the future of the PDP as a political party, the PDP government and, by extension, for the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the situation is left unattended and uncorrected, we may take it that the pillar on which PDP stands is mortally impaired. A bad precedent would have been created and, in due course, more will follow and before long, the edifice will collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can save the edifice by correcting what has gone wrong or by deciding to formally jettison zoning, rotation and, by extension, federal character. After all, other political parties have not instituted it in their constitution or be so vocal about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the beginning of the present democratic dispensation in 1999, six offices are known to be zoned and\/or rotated by PDP among the six geopolitical zones, i.e, president, vice-president by election and normally followed by the Senate president and the speaker of the House of Representatives by election at the National Assembly, but in line with the direction of the party, followed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation by appointment and, finally, the chairman of the party by appointment, confirmed by election.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil now, on no account have two of these offices gone to one zone. It has been carefully observed and kept sacrosanct,\u201d the PDP BoT chairman submitted.<\/p>\n

However, PDP sources told the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja, on Wednesday, that it was his predecessor in office, Chief Tony Anenih, who stopped the recommendation in its tracks, as he told the BoT members that it was too late in the day to change the outcome of the House of Representatives\u2019 election of principal officers.<\/p>\n

Anenih was said to have urged the party chieftains to ignore the recommendation and rather explore other avenues of creating a sense of belonging and unity in the PDP.<\/p>\n

Those in attendance were said to have agreed with Anenih\u2019s argument and consequently declined to accept copies of the speech made by the former president at the meeting.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the PDP has set machinery in motion for addressing the crisis generated by breaches the party suffered lately on its zoning arrangement, following the setting up of a seven-man panel by the BoT of the party for that purpose.<\/p>\n

The panel set up by the BoT on zoning had the mandate to review the sharing of national offices as breached by members, while the committee was to advise on the best possible line of action for addressing them.<\/p>\n

In another development, the race for chairmanship of PDP has started assuming an interesting dimension, following plans by contestants to obtain the support of former president, Chief Obasanjo, to clinch the post.<\/p>\n

Indications to this effect emerged in Abuja, as many of the contestants stormed the suite of Chief Obasanjo at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja, to seek his assistance.<\/p>\n

Prominent among the chairmanship aspirants included Alhaji Bamanga Tukur; Alhaji Gambo Lawan; Shettima Mustapha and Alhaji Adamu Bello, all from the North-East zone, even as more aspirants are likely to emerge.<\/p>\n

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the PDP will meet today, with President Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo expected at the meeting.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile a former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said Chief Obasanjo\u2019s warning on the demise of the PDP if zoning is not revisited is sheer display of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Obasanjo\u2019s call on Tambuwal and his deputy, Emeka Ihedioha, to resign as a pre-condition for reviving zoning, the former vice-president described the call as \u201can insult on the intelligence of Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is on record that Obasanjo has no respect for the PDP constitution. He remains the problem in the PDP and governance in the country by trying to control every president he deems to have installed in power, something he could not have tolerated from others while he was in power,\u201d he said, adding that Obasanjo had no power to determine the fate of the speaker and his deputy.<\/p>\n

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