Crisis Hits Kwara PDP As Guber Aspirants Reject Micro-zoning

Date: 2022-04-19

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership in Kwara State is in a fix as some stakeholders and gubernatorial aspirants of the party have rejected the micro- zoning adopted by the leadership to pick the party's gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 election.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the stakeholders and concerned gubernatorial aspirants have conveyed their rejection of the micro- zoning arrangement to the leadership of the party in the state and the national leader of the party, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.

The PDP had earlier zoned its gubernatorial ticket to Kwara north comprising Baruten, Kaiama, Edu, Patigi, and Moro local government areas.

But, the leadership of the party last weekend announced its decision to micro-zone the gubernatorial ticket to Moro, Edu, and Patigi axis of Kwara North, excising the remote border communities of Baruten and Kaiama from the contest.

The Moro, Edu, and Patigi axis had once produced the state's civilian governor in 1991 when Alh Mohammed Sha'abs Lafiagi was elected as the state government under the banner of the then Saraki- controlled Social Democratic Party. The Kaiama and Baruten axis has never produced a state governor.

Some high ranking stalwarts of the PDP in Baruten, Kaiama axis confirmed to LEADERSHIP that:" We have rejected the micro zoning of the PDP governorship ticket and we have conveyed our feelings to the leadership of the party.

"Our demand is that all the party's gubernatorial aspirants from Kwara north should be allowed to obtain nomination forms and participate in a transparent primary. We will do everything humanly possible to resist the injustice being meted out to Baruten, Kaiama axis through the micro zoning."

The leading PDP gubernatorial aspirants from Baruten/Kaiama axis include a former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education, Hon. Zakari Mohammed, a former minister of Sports, Alh Bio Ibrahim, and a member of the PDP board of trustees, Hon.Adamu Bawa.

Meanwhile, scores of the aggrieved members of PDP in the state have initiated moves to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

It was gathered that the PDP members were disappointed over the manner the party's leadership handled the selection of the candidates that will flag the party's banners during the 2023 general elections

Some of the aggrieved members of the opposition party confided LEADERSHIP that the shoddy handling of the PDP's primaries has dashed their hope of the comeback bid of the party come 2023.

It was gathered that the majority of those planning to dump PDP are from Kwara central and North senatorial districts.

"We are not happy about the micro zoning arrangements which edged out vibrant, experienced, and leading aspirants from Baruten/ Kaiama axis of Kwara north from the governorship primaries. Our people in Baruten and Kaiama are not happy about this development. The supporters of our governorship aspirants in Kwara central are also not happy. This is why some of us have commenced moves to defect to the APC," the sources added.

When contacted, a leader of the party in the state who craved anonymity, said: "The complaint of our people from Baruten, Kaiama axis is coming a bit late. Some other decisions had been taken following the adoption of the micro zoning arrangements. One of the aspirants from that axis has been given the senatorial ticket as compensation for them. Some of these decisions cannot be reversed."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olam Food Ingredients     Quareeb Islamic Association     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Ope Saraki     Isin     Budo-Egba     Kayode Bankole     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Ayo Opadokun     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Folashade Omoniyi     Makama Of Ilorin     Universal Basic Education Commission     Oke-Ode     20 Billion Bond     Mustapha Olanipekun     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Kale Bayero     Idi-Ape     Temitope Ogunbanke     Obayomi Azeez     UTME     Umar Saro     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Kwara Consultative Forum     Oluronke Adeyemi     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Abdulazeez Arowona     Ilorin Muslim Community     Michael Nzwekwe     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Sadiq Buhari     Salami Adekunle     Aso Ofi     Yoruba     Bayer AG     Peter Amogbonjaye     Abraham Ojo     NFAI     Isiaka Oniwa     Christopher Ayeni     Funmilayo Zubair     Ilesha-Gwanara     Goodluck Jonathan     Sunday Popo-Ola     Hauwa Nuru     Peculiar Allowance     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Ita-Nmo Market     Mahe Abdulkadir     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Ahmad Belgore     Saka Balikis Kehinde     CT Ayeni     Kuliyan Geri     Binta Sulyman     CCT     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Funmilayo Mohammed     Tanke     Segun Ogunsola     Yaman     Maigida     Ganiyu Abolarin     Elesie Of Esie     Sunset Workers     Iponrin     Olabode Towoju     Umar Ayinla Saro     Babata     Ilorin Metro Park     Bukola Ajikobi     Igbomina    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Congress For National Consensus     Shonga Farm Project     March 18     ITEM 7     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Sidikat Alaya     Ashiru     Abdulkarim Adisa     JAMB     Offa Poly     Unilorin     Agboola Abdulraheem     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Ibrahim Oniye     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Muhammadu Gobir     CCB     Nigerian Medical Association     Tanke Road     Bolaji Abdullahi     Halimat Yusuf     Gbenga Adebayo     Omar Gambari     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Guber Aspirant     Oke-Odo     Egbewole     Toyin Abdullahi     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Oke-Ero     Bareke     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Henry Makinwa     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Kwara Consultative Forum     Hussein Olokooba     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Gobir     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Elelu     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Yakubu Shaaba     Amos Sayo     Ademola Kiyesola     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Agboola Babatunde     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Haliru Dantoro     Isau     Agbarere     Coronavirus     Bolaji Gambari     Oniye     Bluenile Associates     Salman Suleiman     Aliyu Kora Sabi     NITDA     NSCIA     Muhammed Danjuma     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Fulani     Abdulwahab Oba     Ajakaye     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Sa\'adu Salau     Kayode Laro     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja