2015: PDP set to resolve Taraba zoning crisis – Mu’azu

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Adamu Mu’azu

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Adamu Mu’azu has said that the party is set to resolve the zoning crisis in the Taraba State ahead of the 2015 elections.

Mu’azu, who was speaking when he received a PDP delegation from the state led by the acting governor Alhaji Sani Danladi at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja yesterday, said they were ready to resolve the crisis so that the party would come out victorious in 2015.
Mu’azu said: “I have heard from the governor and I have seen from the resolution of the stakeholders the issue of zoning. Whenever anybody asks me about zoning at the national level, I always tell them that there is no zoning for any state or any particular constituency. Zoning comes up only to the local.

“If the people of Taraba State want zoning, so be it. I cannot say otherwise. Ours is only to bless your zoning if you so wish. And I just want to draw the attention of the governor, I have done it in private and I am saying it now: please, the leadership at the headquarters here would like to have the minutes of the meeting that was held in the past where such zoning was done; we will work with it,” he said
Danladi had earlier told the national chairman that there was an agreement among party leaders and stakeholders in the state that in 2015, the state governorship slot would be zoned to the southern zone, saying Taraba North alone has governed the state for 10 years which is why the power shift to the south in 2015 is being agitated for.
But Mu’azu maintained that the party would look at the issue as soon as the acting governor produces the minutes of the meeting where the decision was taken.
“Almost all the states have done their primaries. It is only Taraba and Ogun states and I don’t want Taraba to be dragged back. I want you to cooperate with me and assist me in making us take decision as quickly as possible and to enable you go back home and do your primaries and all the various elections,” he said.