{"id":917052,"date":"2022-01-17T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/not-zoning-presidency-to-south-east-will-be-burden-on-the-nations-conscience\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:10:38","slug":"not-zoning-presidency-to-south-east-will-be-burden-on-the-nations-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/not-zoning-presidency-to-south-east-will-be-burden-on-the-nations-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Zoning Presidency To South-East Will Be Burden On The Nation\u2019s Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_535334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535334\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-535334 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Anyim_Pius_Anyim2-600x454.jpg\" alt=\"Anyim: Not Zoning Presidency To South-East Will Be Burden On The Nation\u2019s Conscience\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-535334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anyim Pius Anyim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former president of the senate, Anyim Pius Anyim has stated that the failure of political parties to zone the presidency to the south-east in 2023 \u201cwill be a burden on the conscience of the nation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Anyim had declared his interest to run for the office of the president in 2023, \u201ceven if it is not zoned\u201d to the south-east.<\/p>\n<p>In a chat with Arise TV on Monday, Anyim said \u201cthere is also an agreement about the zoning principle regarding rotation between the north and the south\u201d in the PDP constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He said the south-east must produce the president in 2023 for \u201cevery section of the country to have a sense of belonging\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_461 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: I Am Not Threatened By Govs Defecting To APC \u2013 Umahi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue equity, fairness and justice is a fundamental issue. The federal character is entrenched in every facet of public service which is why it makes sense for the presidency to emerge from the south-east this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the PDP constitution, there is also an agreement about the zoning principle regarding rotation between the north and the south with the region micro zoning amongst themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason is because every section of the country must have a sense of belonging; not following it will be a burden on the conscience of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyim Pius Anyim Former president of the senate, Anyim Pius Anyim has stated that the failure of political parties to zone the presidency to the south-east in 2023 \u201cwill be a burden on the conscience of the nation\u201d. Anyim had declared his interest to run for the office of the president in 2023, \u201ceven if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}