NewsFormer PDP Chairman Says Zoning is in Party’s Constitution

ABUJA —The former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Kawu Baraje, has affirmed that zoning is in the constitution of the party.

He said this on Wednesday in Ilorin, capital of Kwara state, while briefing reporters ahead of his coronation as ‘Tafida of Ilorin’.

“It’s not in the constitution of PDP before, but it is now clearly stated in the PDP constitution that zoning should be respected,” the News Agency of Nigeria quoted him as saying.

“There is a caveat in the constitution which say that zoning should be respected for the purpose of giving a sense of belonging to all members of the party and for all-inclusiveness except and only when a resolution of the national executive council (NEC) decides otherwise.

“It is stated in the constitution black and white; it was reviewed in the constitution sometime around 2011. Although, before then, it was an oral tradition of PDP and it was even as good as being written.

“I met it like that when I took over as party national secretary in 2008. Even when it was an oral tradition of the party, it was highly respected.

“It was formally included in our party constitution in 2011 when we were reviewing the party constitution before I left in 2011,” he said.

“I think what His excellency, Alhaji Atiku, was talking about was Nigeria constitution, not PDP. If I got him right, he said zoning is not in Nigeria’s constitution.”

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