Lamido says north rejects Ugwuanyi committee zoning

Trouble is already brewing as the PDP Zoning Committee zones PDP’s national chairmanship to the north, foreclosing the region chances of picking the presidential ticket.

Outspoken members of the party from the north, who favour keeping the ticket open,  are already kicking.

Jigawa’s former Gov Sule Lamido has kicked, saying it’s not possible to zone the presidential ticket to the south because of some private interest.

Lamido stated this in his interview with BBC Hausa service today.

According to him, the Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi-led committee it may not be a problem if the decision—the national chairmanship zoning— is meant to revive the acceptability and popularity of the party in the northern part of the country

But if the decision is meant to zone the 2023 presidential candidate to the southern part of the country that would not be acceptable.

“What brings this issue is because the southern PDP and APC Governors agreed that president must come from the southern part of the country.

“There is no compulsion in politics everybody has equal rights and if you said you want your own, so everybody has his own as well.

“Therefore unity and progress of the country is the most important aspect not any part of the country.

“This happened 20 years back when PDP picked Obasanjo and prevented any candidate from the north.

Lamido said it wasn’t forced on the party then.

“It was the solution to the country’s situation and for the future, progress and peaceful coexistence of the whole country,” Lamido said.

Lamdo is among those northerners  allegedly getting ready to contest the primary. Others are ex-V.P. Atiku Abubakar, ex-Sen. President Bukola Saraki, Sokoto Gov Aminu Tambuwal, and others.