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Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has stated that Nigeria does not need the zoning formula to produce a competent president.
While faulting the PDP’s zoning decision to the south ahead of the 2027 elections, Olawepo-Hashim noted that a competent president can emerge from any part of the country.
Olawepo-Hashim, who appeared on Arise TV’s ‘The Morning Show’ on Thursday, posited that zoning divides Nigerians.
“Let’s deal with issues that will unite us, not the ones that will further divide us. We don’t need this zoning to produce a competent president. A competent president can come from any section of the country.
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“At the national convention, if people think you’re competent enough, they will vote for you. President Olusegun Obasanjo did not emerge in 1999 because of any zoning.
“He contested fairly on a competitive stage, and he won the ticket. It was only under President Goodluck Jonathan that the PDP decided to give him an exclusive ticket, and he lost the election.
“The campaign for zoning the ticket to South in PDP is a default campaign for President Tinubu’s re-election,” he said.
