Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, the party’s chief executive, claims that the PDP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) made a “big error” by approving the zoning decision.
“I’m not saying that they didn’t do it by majority,” I say. By a majority, they succeeded. It was surprisingly democratic. The party’s organs were chosen in total. However, he claimed, “it made a significant error.”
He warned that it constituted an endorsement of Bola Tinubu’s reelection campaign.
Former presidential candidate Olawepo-Hashim issued the warning on Monday, shortly after the party’s meeting in Abuja’s National Executive Committee (NEC).
He called the action “unprecedented” in the party’s history.
Bola Tinubu’s return is the default campaign’s goal, according to Bola Tinubu. Because those who are launching this zoning campaign are the same people who are saying, “We are in PDP, but we work for President Tinubu,” he said on Monday on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
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Olawepo-Hashim claims that the decision effectively reduces the PDP’s chances of developing a viable presidential candidate.
He noted that the party has never forbid any region from running for president, citing recent conventions as examples.
“These people don’t want the PDP to have a viable candidate in their hands,” the party’s default campaign. This is a subdued campaign to support Bola Tinubu’s re-election.
“The PDP has never previously zoned the presidency.” Alhaji Rimi from northern Nigeria and some other candidates, including Alex Ekwueme, were in a fight in 1999, against former president Olusegun Obasanjo, who was then General Obasanjo.
President Obasanjo had to compete with Alhaji Rimi from Kano and Chief Barnabas Gemade from Benue in the presidential election of 2003. He claimed that the party never “closed the door” to any particular zone.
Olawepo-Hashim further reacted by warning that the zoning decision could lead to a constitutional crisis by claiming that it violated constitutional rights.
Source: Channels TV
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