PDP: Nazif To Run For National Chairman As NEC Upholds Positions On Swap Arrangement

Sen. Suleiman Nazif

Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Sen. Suleiman Nazif has thrown his hat in the ring for the office of the National Chairman of the main opposition party.

Nazif, a former lawmaker has sent out messages to major stakeholders in the party announcing his interest to head the PDP.

The Governor Ifeanyi Ugwanyi -led zoning committee for positions of the National Executive Committee (NEC) had announced that positions will be swapped between the north and the south. The current chairman, Mr. Uche Secondus is from Rivers State.

 The zoning committee’s decision which comes ahead the party’s emergency national convention was ratified at Thursday’s NEC to the dismay of the party’s leading presidential aspirants, many of whom come from the north.

Frontline News Online gathered that northern bigwigs in the PDP met at the Bauchi Governor’s lodge in Abuja to confer on the outcome of the meeting which translates to the National Chairman of the party coming from the north and consequentially a southern presidential candidate.

There have been speculations of the PDP zoning the post of National Chairman to the South-West, with political watchers projecting a replay of the party’s presidential primaries in 2018. The primary was won by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto took the second position with the former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki taking the third position.

This paper was told that Atiku and Saraki were among a long list of influential northerners at Thursday’s late night meeting hosted by Governor Bala Mohammed, who is also believed to have presidential ambition based on the now discarded permutation of the South West getting the chairmanship position with the presidential ticket thrown wide open.

It was gathered that the North-West blatantly rejected the chairmanship position at the meeting with the North-Central being pressurized to take the offer. The argument of the North-Central has been that it would prefer the presidential ticket because since 1999, the region had produced five chairmen in PDP in the persons of Chief Solomon Lar – Plateau State, Dr Banabas Gemade – Benue State, Chief Audu Ogbeh- Benue, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, Kogi state and  Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, Kwara.

 It was further learnt that the meeting ended with the agreement that a committee will be set up on Friday to search for northern candidate with capacity to lead the PDP up to the 2023 general elections.

“The meeting was well attended. We had two former Senate Presidents, Dr. Iorchia Ayu, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Chairman PDP Board of Trustees, Sen. Walid Jibrin, four northern governors, former VP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was also at the meeting and it was resolved that a committee would be set up tomorrow  to search for the best candidate for the office of national chairman since the swap arrangement was upheld today”, the source said.

Ahead of tomorrow’s meeting, word has it that the North West has two persons interested in replacing Uche Secondus as PDP National Chairman, they are former Kaduna State governor, Senator Ahmed Makarfi and former Katsina State governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema. It is also being speculated that the North East  has two intending aspirants in Former Gombe State Governor. Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo and the current Deputy National Chairman North, Senator Suleiman Nazif.

Northern groups had protested the zoning arrangement at the Wadata Plaza Heaquaters of the PDP during the tension soaked NEC meeting.    

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3 Comments

  1. Allah ya tabbatar Masa da wannan Kujerar Shugabancin Jamiyyar PDPn Na Kasa Domin Sanata Suleiman Mohammed Nazif Gamawa shine ya chanchanci ya Zama Shugaban Jamiyyar Na Kasa a Zaben Mai zuwa

  2. Shugabancin Jamiyyar PDP Na Kasa Tana Bukatan Matashi.

    Tabbas Idan Muka Duba Dukkan Cikin Masu Sha’awar Neman Kujerar Shugabancin Jamiyyar PDP Na Kasa Babu Wanda Ya Chanchanci Zama Shugaban Jamiyyar Sai Sanata Suleiman Mohammed Nazif.

    Duba Da Yadda Shugabancin Jamiyyar PDPn a Baya Ya Samu Nakaso Sakamom Rashin Jajircewar Wanda Ya Sauka Daga Kayin Kujerar Yasa Kowa Ke Fatan Sanata Nazif Ya Zama Shugaban Jamiyyar Na Kasa Baki Daya.

    Sanata Nazif Matashi Ne Mai Jini Ajika Wanda Zai Shiga Lungu Da Sako Na Jihohin Najeriya Domin Dawo Da Martabar Jamiyyar PDPn a Dukkan Matakai Da Suka Dace.

    Zamuyi Matukar Farin Ciki Idan Har Sanata Nazif Ya Kasance Shugaban Jamiyyar Na Kasa Domin Kowa Yasan Mutum Ne Mai Kwazo Wanda Ke Aiki Babu Dare Babu Rana Wajan Cimma Abunda Yasa Agaba Da Taimakon Ubangiji.

    Muna Fatan Dukkan Masu Ruwa Da Tsaki Akan Wannan Zaben Shugabancin Jamiyyar PDPn Da Zai Gudana Dasu Zabi Sanata Nazif Domin Kawo Chanji Na Kwarai Cikin Jamiyyar Tamu.

    Yusuf Yakubu Muhammad
    Me tallafawa Sanata Nazif Kan kafafen yada labarai na Zamani
    08/10/2021

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