Two groups have emerged from within and outside the 44 man Ugwanyi Committee charged with zoning PDP NWC offices as the body concludes a crucial meeting in Enugu, the home base of its chairman.
The first group called the ‘Maintain the Status Quo Group’ wants all the party offices to be retained in the geographical side to which they presently are.
However, the second group called the ‘Move Around Group’ wants all the posts presently in the South to be transferred to the North while the ones in the North should move southward.
By the calculation of the ‘Maintain the Staus Quo’ group, the chairmanship of the Party will be retained in the South while the National Secretary will move to the North. However, the ‘Move Around Group’ wants the next chairman of PDP to emerge from the North while the South produces the Secretary.
Also, while the ‘Move Around Group’ believes that zoning the chairmanship group to the North will make the Presidential ticket to be automatically zoned to the South, they continued to insist that the issue at hand now is party position and when the party gets to the point where it has to nominate the presidential flagbearer, the matter will be resolved.
However, the ‘Maintain the Status Quo’ group believes that the zoning committee should also adopt the position of the Bala Mohammed Committee which reviewed the performance of the party in the 2019 general election should clearly declare that the presidential ticket of the party will be thrown open for aspirants from all the six zones.
Senator Anyim Pius Anyim is leading the ‘Move Around Group’ and has the support of some elements in the South-South and South-East zones. The ‘Maintain the Status Quo Group’ is led by Governor Seyi Makinde and reportedly has the buy-in of key leaders of the party across the South-West and the three zones in the North.
It is believed the Ugwanyi Committee may eventually resort to voting among members to take decisions on which area will produce the party chairman at the October 30th national convention of the party.
