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Fresh leadership crisis is looming in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over zoning of the chairmanship position which was ceded to the South-west zone prior to the botched national convention in Port Harcourt.
This is coming barely a month after the Supreme Court resolved the leadership tussle between Ahmed Makarfi and Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction.
A pressure group within the party is fingering the forum of ex-ministers for allegedly plotting to alter the zoning formula earlier adopted in Port Harcourt.
The group, which calls itself ‘Committee for Justice and Fairness’, circulated a statement in Lagos in which it described the activities of the former ministers as “disruptive and reckless”.
In the letter addressed to the chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, the group said, “It is rather disgraceful, annoying, obstructionist and evil straying into a deliberate sabotaging of the present peace of our party when the so-called former ministers are bent on destroying the already long established consensus reached at Port Harcourt that the next national chairman of our party should come from the South West”.
The group said to deprive the South West of the position “is condemnable, invidious, cruel and unfair. It is virtually unacceptable.
“This very historic consensus is not only fair and just. It is very appropriate and compliments the well known fairness doctrine. For out of all the six zones of our national union, the South West is the only zone which has been deprived of this prime honour,” the statement said.
This is coming barely a month after the Supreme Court resolved the leadership tussle between Ahmed Makarfi and Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction.
A pressure group within the party is fingering the forum of ex-ministers for allegedly plotting to alter the zoning formula earlier adopted in Port Harcourt.
The group, which calls itself ‘Committee for Justice and Fairness’, circulated a statement in Lagos in which it described the activities of the former ministers as “disruptive and reckless”.
In the letter addressed to the chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, the group said, “It is rather disgraceful, annoying, obstructionist and evil straying into a deliberate sabotaging of the present peace of our party when the so-called former ministers are bent on destroying the already long established consensus reached at Port Harcourt that the next national chairman of our party should come from the South West”.
The group said to deprive the South West of the position “is condemnable, invidious, cruel and unfair. It is virtually unacceptable.
“This very historic consensus is not only fair and just. It is very appropriate and compliments the well known fairness doctrine. For out of all the six zones of our national union, the South West is the only zone which has been deprived of this prime honour,” the statement said.