Why PDP Chairmanship slot was reserved for Southwest zone – Makarfi

The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) caretaker committee, Ahmed Makarfi, says  reserving the party’s chairmanship position to SouthWest was not intended to short change anybody, but for the good of the party.

Markarfi defended the decision of the PDP on the matter, during the inauguration of the party’s convention planning committee in Abuja on Friday.

He said: “Zoning doesn’t mean you have been excluded, it is meeting of the minds. And it is for every aspirant to assess by himself or herself whether he or she has the capacity to garner more support than. Collection of people that come together to have a common position. So, I don’t want people to have the impression that they have been excluded from the process. After all democracy is about minority will have their say, majority will have their way.

“I recall when we last met here to inaugurate the zoning committee

and I mentioned on behalf of the caretaker committee that the convention would be an all-inclusive one and that offices to be contested for would be open to all and sundry, that doesn’t mean people cannot come together to zone offices. If zoning does not favour you and you still think that you have the best chance of winning, the political landscape is there. It’s up to you to campaign across the country to get enough delegates to support you”.