{"id":50391,"date":"2021-09-19T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=50391"},"modified":"2021-09-19T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:02:30","slug":"pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning","title":{"rendered":"PDP Governors\u2019 forum \u2018fires\u2019 at Umahi over comment on zoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 forum on Saturday revealed that a decision on zoning of political offices would be made by the party at the right time before the party\u2019s convention scheduled for October 30.<\/p>\n<p>PDP and its governors\u2019 forum disclosed this in separate statements issued on Saturday in Abuja in reaction to a comment by Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on the issue of zoning of presidency by the party ahead of the PDP national convention.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi had accused the PDP of not being ready to zone its 2023 presidential ticket to the southern region of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP Governors\u2019 Forum (PDP-GF), in a statement by Hon. C.I.D Maduabum, its Director-General, said that the forum was outraged by Umahi, who left the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC), attempting \u201cto turn truth on its head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re just an attention seeker \u2013 PDP tells Umahi<\/p>\n<p>Maduabum urged Umahi, who he alleged to have sabotaged PDP in the 2019 presidential election in the state, to continue his role in the APC and leave the PDP alone.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of zoning, Maduabum urged Umahi to face his issues in the APC and not drag the PDP and its Governors into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDP is an independent political party with workable structures and method of doing things. It is not an appendage of the APC or indeed of any other association or group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP will take its decision on the issue of zoning political offices at the appropriate time. Even the APC has not taken any decision yet on zoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent groups and interests are advancing arguments to defend their positions as is required in a democracy. At the end of the day, decisions will be taken by each political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maduabum stated that the PDP was single minded in its resolve to regain power in 2023 and would craft strategies to accomplish the same in the national interest and survival of Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>2023: APC governors kick against zoning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 forum on Saturday revealed that a decision on zoning of political offices would be made by the party at the right time before the party\u2019s convention scheduled for October 30. PDP and its governors\u2019 forum disclosed this in separate statements issued on Saturday in Abuja in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":50390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,65,998],"class_list":["post-50391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-umahi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP Governors\u2019 forum \u2018fires\u2019 at Umahi over comment on zoning - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 forum on Saturday revealed that a decision on zoning of political offices ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP Governors\u2019 forum \u2018fires\u2019 at Umahi over comment on zoning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 forum on Saturday revealed that a decision on zoning of political offices ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-19T14:44:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/img-614742da86e33.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP Governors\u2019 forum \u2018fires\u2019 at Umahi over comment on zoning\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-19T14:44:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning\"},\"wordCount\":344,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/img-614742da86e33.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Umahi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-governors-forum-fires-at-umahi-over-comment-on-zoning\",\"name\":\"PDP Governors\u2019 forum \u2018fires\u2019 at Umahi over comment on zoning - 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