It’s ‘Big Swindle’ – HURIWA Berates PDP’s Jettisoning Of Zoning

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BY VICTOR BUORO – For jettisoning the zoning arrangement to embrace an all-comers contest in its presidential primaries, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been labelled as a deceptive bunch of political actors.

The harsh verdict was delivered against the country’s main opposition party by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) following the announcement that its presidential ticket has been thrown open to aspirants from all the geo-political zones.

An angry HURIWA said in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko that the former ruling party’s refusal to zone its presidential ticket to the South; particularly the South-East, is a “big swindle.”

Further amplifying its disappointment with the party’s decision, HURIWA said the decision demonstrates to Nigerians that the PDP does not respect equity, fairness, or justice within its political structures.

According to the human rights organisation, all eligible voters should prepare their PVCs in order to vote out the PDP; and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) if they field a northern candidate after their presidential primaries.

The statement by Onwubiko said; “We condemn the decision of PDP to throw its presidential ticket open. PDP’s decision not to heed the wise counsel of elder statesmen [in the Southern region] is blameworthy.

“This is considering that the South-East is the only zone that has not produced a democratically elected President out of the three major ethnicities; since Nigeria’s Self government after over 60 years of existence as a Sovereignty.

“Throwing the contest open has confirmed that PDP has scammed the South-East. This is even after the zone has suffered marginalisation and exclusion from the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“What PDP has done shows clearly that it is indeed a 419 political contraption. Our plea is that Nigerian voters who don’t have PVCs should get their cards. This is so as to reject both PDP and APC should both feature northern candidates for president.”

Rising from its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Wednesday night, the nation’s opposition party voted against zoning, a decision that leaves its presidential ticket open for grabs by an aspirant from any part of the country

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