PDP Convention: Kwara Group Lobbies for Party Spokesman’s Job

Onyebuchi Ezigbo

Leading stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State have begun a lobby to have the coveted position of National Publicity Secretary of the party zoned to the state.

Under the recently approved zoning arrangement released by the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP, the North-central has been asked to produce the next spokesman of the party at the proposed national convention coming up later in the month.

As part of the lobby, a political interest group,thePDP KwaraSupportGroup, has reached out to the North-central zone leadership urging it to be fair to the state on the basis of equity and justice to reconsider and zone the office of the National Publicity Secretary to the State.

The Kwara support group leader specifically appealed to Professor Jerry Gana, Senator David Mark, Alhaji Senator Ibrahim Mantu, Senator Jonah Jang, ExGovernors Gabriel Suswan, Idris Wada, Abdulkadir Kure, Babangida Aliyu and all other key stakeholders that have influence to favour Kwara State PDP.

In its appeal contained in a letter to the leadership of the party in the North-central zone, the group said it believed that allowing the state to produce the next PDP spokesman would rally the people together towards reinvigorated strong PDP in Kwara State ahead of 2019.

“The appeal as a clarion call and SOS is targeted at the leadership comprising of all the six states chairmen and secretaries, youth leaders, zonal treasurers and women leaders in the North-central zone alongside with the two per state key stakeholders caucus members to graciously reconsider the zoning arrangement to as it affects the office of National Publicity Secretary to favour Kwara State.