Indications on Thursday suggest that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has zoned the position of national chairman to the South-West, while the South-South was handed the deputy national chairmanship.
According to The Punch zoning was done at the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt, where the PDP governors met.
Uthman Shodipe, a media aide to a former National Deputy Chairman of the party, Chief Bode George, confirmed the development, saying it was good news for the South-West.
The development was also confirmed by the Director of Campaign, Tunde Adeniran Campaign Organisation, Taiwo Akeju, adding that the positions of the national deputy chairman and the national legal adviser of the party had been zoned to the South-South.
Akeju said, “We are happy about the development. It would provide an opportunity for the South-West to occupy the post for the first time.”
According to reports, a former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said he was unaware of the development because he had fallen sick lately.
A PDP Board of Trustees member, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, said he had yet to receive the news.
Another BoT member of the party, Alhaji Shauib Oyedokun, said the he had not received the report, but added that the South-West elders’ caucus of the party had met to evolve strategies towards clinching the post.
