Plateau north to produce PDP Chair

The Plateau State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has zoned its Chairmanship position to the Northern Zone of the state. This is as the governorship position has been zoned to the southern zone.

The central zone was however left out of the PDP Chairmanship seat as the last Chairman of the party, Dr. Haruna Dabin, was from the central zone.

It was also gathered that a part of the decision to zone the party’s number one seat in the state to the northern zone, was to also further douse the sentiment that marred the party’s destiny at the 2015 gubernatorial election, where the then incumbent from the northern zone, Jonah David Jang (now a senator), allegedly imposed a successor from his constituency to fly the party’s flag at the polls.

However, the Coalition of PDP Patriots, Plateau North, on Wednesday, rose from its zonal meeting to salute the resolution of the State Executive Council (SEC), on its decision to bring the PDP apex seat to their home.

Also the northern zone has further zoned the most prime seat in the party to some specific Local Government Councils, excluding the Berom tribe for some obvious political reasons with prejudice to the political future of other tribes within the Plateau north.

In a statement signed by the Chairman of Plateau Coalition of PDP Patriots, Plateau North, Emmanuel Loman and made available to our correspondent, it stated in part that “the resolutions by the State Executive Committee (SEC) on zoning positions to the State Executive Council of the party in the forthcoming congresses and the Northern Zonal Meeting at which the positions to zone were further zoned to the constituent LGAs, is laudable.”