The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jibrin, has said stakeholders won’t allow the zoning of key offices in the country to break up the party.
He said this after a meeting of the BoT at the PDP National Headquarters in Abuja where non-statutory members of the board were inaugurated to serve for three years.
“We are not talking about the zoning of the Offices of the President, Vice President, Senate President of Speaker of the House of Representatives yet. Zoning can mar or destroy our party but by the grace of God, we will not allow it to happen.
“What I can say is that we should never be personal because when you want to be personal, the issue of disunity will come,” he said.
He also spoke about the election of the BOT chairman said its secretary.
He said: “The constitution says the chairman and secretary must come either from the North or the South. Today, I come from the North and Adolphus Wabara, the secretary of the BoT, comes from the South. The constitution also gives the chairman and the secretary opportunity to serve for five years only and there is no re-election.
“By God’s grace, we have already spent three years and we are only waiting for the next two years.”
He said with the inauguration, the board now has 98 full memberships.
Walid described the local government elections in Nasarawa State where the All-Progressives Congress (APC) won all the elective positions, leaving nothing for the PDP.
He said he had enjoined his people to remain calm and not to quarrel.
