The Arewa Consultative Forum has criticised 18 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party for endorsing a single tenure of four years for President Goodluck Jonathan.
But as the ACF cried fowl over the development, one of the PDP governors, Mr. Theodore Orji, vowed that he and his colleagues would deliver the South-East to Jonathan.
The Action Congress of Nigeria had earlier on Sunday warned that the “bitter contest” by aspirants for the PDP presidential ticket was a threat to Nigeria’s continued existence.
The ACF had, in a statement on Sunday, said it doubted if the Federal Government would conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2011, going by the ‘flagrant abuse of the PDP constitution.’
According to the forum, the PDP has ‘”decided to throw away all forms of decorum in the conduct of its affairs.”
It argued in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Anthony Sani, that if the PDP governors believed that individual constitutional rights to contest elections was sacrosanct, they should not have agreed to limit Jonathan’s ambition to a single tenure of four years.
It added,“ Our reaction to the position of the PDP and some of its governors that President Jonathan has the constitutional right to contest for the presidency in 2011 against party constitution on rotation and zoning, whose sequence has been explained to be between North and South by the PDP National Chairman, Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo, to the late Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, are that they ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.”
The ACF further argued that rotation and zoning were not peculiar to the Nigerian situation as a means of addressing the collective challenges of unity in diversity.
It pointed out that rotation and zoning were also being practised by some developed nations like Switzerland and Australia as well as some international organisations like the United Nations, European Union, and the Economic Community of West African States.
Niyi Odebode and Olusola Fabiyi and Segun Olatunji
The Arewa Consultative Forum has criticised 18 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party for endorsing a single tenure of four years for President Goodluck Jonathan.
But as the ACF cried fowl over the development, one of the PDP governors, Mr. Theodore Orji, vowed that he and his colleagues would deliver the South-East to Jonathan.
The Action Congress of Nigeria had earlier on Sunday warned that the “bitter contest” by aspirants for the PDP presidential ticket was a threat to Nigeria’s continued existence.
The ACF had, in a statement on Sunday, said it doubted if the Federal Government would conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2011, going by the ‘flagrant abuse of the PDP constitution.’
According to the forum, the PDP has ‘”decided to throw away all forms of decorum in the conduct of its affairs.”
It argued in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Anthony Sani, that if the PDP governors believed that individual constitutional rights to contest elections was sacrosanct, they should not have agreed to limit Jonathan’s ambition to a single tenure of four years.
It added,“ Our reaction to the position of the PDP and some of its governors that President Jonathan has the constitutional right to contest for the presidency in 2011 against party constitution on rotation and zoning, whose sequence has been explained to be between North and South by the PDP National Chairman, Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo, to the late Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, are that they ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.”
The ACF further argued that rotation and zoning were not peculiar to the Nigerian situation as a means of addressing the collective challenges of unity in diversity.
It pointed out that rotation and zoning were also being practised by some developed nations like Switzerland and Australia as well as some international organisations like the United Nations, European Union, and the Economic Community of West African States.
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