Dec 9 PDP Convention: South gets Chairman, Treasurer, Legal Adviser; North to produce Secretary, Publicity Secretary, Auditor

Ahead of its December 9 National Convention in Abuja, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, zoned the office of the National Chairman to the South.
According to the Chairman of the Zoning Committee and Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, all the 17 states in the South are free to field candidates for the office.
The office of the National Secretary has been zoned to the North.
All the 19 states in the zone are free to field candidates for the post.
While releasing zoning arrangements
for the various offices at the national level, Umahi disclosed that the party would now have Deputy National Chairman (North) and Deputy National Chairman (South).
The Ebonyi governor, who presented his report to the National Caretaker Committee (NCC), declared that other positions zoned to the South include those of the National Treasurer, National Legal Adviser, National Youth Leader, National Organising Secretary, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Deputy National Woman Leader, Deputy National Auditor and Deputy National Financial Secretary.
Aside the National Secretary, he said the North would produce the National Financial Secretary, National Publicity Secretary, National Auditor, National Woman Leader, Deputy National Treasurer, Deputy National Organising Secretary, Deputy National Youth Leader, Deputy National Legal Adviser and Deputy National Secretary.
Each of the six geo-political zones is to present a National Vice Chairman who will be included in the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).
He said: “Under the new zoning arrangement, all positions are to be keenly contested by aspirants from all the states that fall under the region to which the offices are zoned.
“As a guide, the committee considered earlier zoning arrangements in the party since its inception to date, and equally examined previous happenings in the party in respect of restrictions to equal participation of members.”
He added that in arriving at the new zoning arrangement, the committee opted for a paradigm shift from what he described as the unsatisfactory practices within the party operations in the past.