Ekiti group cautions PDP against zoning

….Backs Gbenga Hashim

By Seotan Oluwabunmi

ADO-EKITI—A governmental enactment radical successful Ekiti State has cautioned the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, against zoning its 2027 statesmanlike ticket, informing that specified a determination could weaken the party’s chances successful the wide elections.

The group, nether the aegis of Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim Solidarity Movement, declared its rejection of the determination of the PDP National Executive Committee, NEC, which past period resolved to portion the statesmanlike summons to the South.

Briefing newsmen aft a gathering of stakeholders drawn from the 16 section authorities areas of the state, the radical maintained that zoning would exclude competent and nationally accepted aspirants from the contest.

The Ekiti State Coordinator of the movement, Mr. Sunday Williams, insisted that the federation needs a person with proven capableness to negociate Nigeria’s immense resources and code poverty, insecurity, and corruption, alternatively than 1 imposed done taste considerations.

According to him, “Zoning volition lone nutrient a sectional and anemic candidate, and the PDP risks losing the 2027 elections if it goes up with this plan. What Nigerians request present is simply a nationalist with intimidating credentials, and that is wherefore we are mobilising for Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim.”

Olawepo-Hashim, a erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, hails from Kebbi State successful the North-West.

Also speaking, the South-West Coordinator of the movement, Abass Olaniyi, described zoning arsenic an ill-conceived statement meant to fulfill a fewer cabals wrong the PDP. He stressed that lone a transparent superior unfastened to each aspirants would springiness the enactment a credible campaigner and foster post-primary reconciliation.

Olaniyi added: “The NWC should supply a level playing tract for each aspirant. That is the lone mode to unite the enactment and hole for the wide elections.”

The radical vowed to instrumentality its run against zoning to the PDP nationalist normal scheduled for November, insisting that Olawepo-Hashim represents the champion accidental for the absorption enactment to reclaim powerfulness successful 2027.

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