By Jubril Bada

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A chieftain of the Yoruba social cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Femi Aluko, has described the decision of the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi -led Zoning Committee to rotate the office of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the North which may eventually lead to the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket to the south as sign of equity.
In an interview with The Hope, the chieftain of the group said the decision if implemented would satisfy the equity after the eight years rule of the President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
This, he noted was not about satisfying the Southerners people of the south in the country but as justification for equity.
“That is normal thing. This is not the matter of satisfying Yoruba or Igbo people but to satisfy equity.
” Let the presidency go to the south after eight years rule of the President Buhari” he disclosed
Aluko, who was a former State lawmaker in the old Ondo State said other political parties should decide on their own from which region to pick their presidential candidates ahead of the 2023 general elections.
It would be recalled that there was new permutation followed the decision of the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi -led Zoning Committee to rotate the office of National Chairman of the PDP to the North.
However, the decision to rezone the office of the national chairman of the PDP to the North, and with it, the prospect of a Southern presidential candidate according to disclosure by party’s sources to journalists there was focused attention on the prospective presidential nominees with the Southern Governors Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and former President Goodluck Jonathan emerging as leading possibilities.