PDP zones 2019 presidency to north.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has resolved to pick its presidential candidate for the 2019 Presidential Election from the North.
Acting National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, who announced the decision while receiving the report of the PDP Post-Election Review Committee, said the National Working Committee (NWC) had accepted the recommendation of the committee to choose the party’s presidential candidate in 2019 from the North.
Prince Secondus described the report as a turning point in the affairs of the party, noting that PDP is now a well organised political party in Nigeria, ready to play the role of opposition politics.
The acting chairman assured that the committee’s report would be presented before other organs of the party for adoption and ratification.
The Chairman of the post election committee, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who is also the Deputy President of the Senate, had, while presenting the report, advised the party to “strictly apply the zoning principle at all levels.”
According to Ekweremadu, “since the last president of PDP extraction came from the southern part of Nigeria, it is recommended that PDP’s presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections should come from the northern part of the country in accordance with the popular views expressed in the submissions to the committee. This will also assuage any ill feelings in the North over any perceived breach of the party’s zoning principle.”
The committee also noted that the role of party leader has “no basis in the constitution of the PDP,” and recommended for its abolition at all levels. This, it said, is to strengthen the structure of the party at all levels.
The committee further advised that the party should do away with the use of delegates to elect its candidates for elections, which it said “has been grossly compromised and abused.”
Instead, it recommended the adoption of direct primary as sole means of electing PDP candidates for any election at all levels, which it said is a way of returning the party to the people, as true owners of PDP.
“It is recommended that the party should henceforth be self-funding, relying on membership registration and enforcement of dues and levies in line with the PDP constitution. This is with a view to ending the prevailing situation where those who pay the piper call the tune,” Ekweremadu stated.
He proposed a nationwide biometric members registration to align the party records with modern technology and further boost the integrity of membership records.
The committee was inaugurated on May 5, 2015 in the wake of PDP’s poor performance in the last general elections, with a nine-term reference.
Acting National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, who announced the decision while receiving the report of the PDP Post-Election Review Committee, said the National Working Committee (NWC) had accepted the recommendation of the committee to choose the party’s presidential candidate in 2019 from the North.
Prince Secondus described the report as a turning point in the affairs of the party, noting that PDP is now a well organised political party in Nigeria, ready to play the role of opposition politics.
The acting chairman assured that the committee’s report would be presented before other organs of the party for adoption and ratification.
The Chairman of the post election committee, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who is also the Deputy President of the Senate, had, while presenting the report, advised the party to “strictly apply the zoning principle at all levels.”
According to Ekweremadu, “since the last president of PDP extraction came from the southern part of Nigeria, it is recommended that PDP’s presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections should come from the northern part of the country in accordance with the popular views expressed in the submissions to the committee. This will also assuage any ill feelings in the North over any perceived breach of the party’s zoning principle.”
The committee also noted that the role of party leader has “no basis in the constitution of the PDP,” and recommended for its abolition at all levels. This, it said, is to strengthen the structure of the party at all levels.
The committee further advised that the party should do away with the use of delegates to elect its candidates for elections, which it said “has been grossly compromised and abused.”
Instead, it recommended the adoption of direct primary as sole means of electing PDP candidates for any election at all levels, which it said is a way of returning the party to the people, as true owners of PDP.
“It is recommended that the party should henceforth be self-funding, relying on membership registration and enforcement of dues and levies in line with the PDP constitution. This is with a view to ending the prevailing situation where those who pay the piper call the tune,” Ekweremadu stated.
He proposed a nationwide biometric members registration to align the party records with modern technology and further boost the integrity of membership records.
The committee was inaugurated on May 5, 2015 in the wake of PDP’s poor performance in the last general elections, with a nine-term reference.

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