BEVERLY HILLS, JULY 26, (THEWILL) – The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has received the report of its zoning committee which aside zoning the presidential candidate and national chairman of the party to the North and South respectively also shared the other national offices at the parity between the two regions of the country.
The PDP zoning committee headed by the Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, on Tuesday, submitted its report to the National Caretaker Committee, NCC, at the party’s temporary office in Abuja. While presenting the report of the committee, he stated that the national offices of the party had been shared equally between the North and the South.
He said the committee also made provisions for two positions of Deputy National Chairman which would be shared between the North and South.
The positions zoned to the North are: Deputy National Chairman 2, National Secretary, National Financial Secretary, National Publicity Secretary, National Auditor and National Woman Leader.
Others were: Deputy National Treasurer, Deputy National Organising Secretary, Deputy National Youth Leader, Deputy National Legal Adviser and Deputy National Secretary.
The South got the positions of National Chairman, Deputy National Chairman 1, National Treasurer, National Legal Adviser, National Youth Leader and National Organising Secretary.
Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Deputy National Woman Leader, Deputy National Auditor and Deputy National Financial Secretary, were also zoned to the South.
Umahi explained that in arriving at the zoning arrangement, the committee considered earlier zoning formula in the party since its inception to date, and equally examined previous happenings in the party in respect of restrictions to equal participation of members.
“Consequently, it desired a paradigm shift from the unsatisfactory practices within the party operations and that all positions should be keenly contested for among the major zones they are zoned to in order to open the space and allow for full participation of members.
“That the chairmanship of the party be zoned to the southern zones bearing in mind that the presidential ticket of the party for 2019 was zoned to the northern zones as approved by the National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, held on May 21, 2016.”
Umahi added that the zoning committee also recommended that the party amends its constitution to make a provision for the six National Vice Chairmen to henceforth be included as members of the National Working Committee, NWC.
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