FORMER military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) has faulted leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over their inconsistencies on the principles of the zoning formula.
Babangida, who dropped his presidential ambition to support the endorsement of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, as the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF), accused the PDP leaders of breaking zoning formula at will.
Faulting the leaders for sticking to the zoning principle after the just-concluded general elections, he queried why the party returned to a formula it earlier discarded for merit before the polls.
Babangida, who spoke through a statement signed by his spokesman, Kassim Afegbua, denied he was nursing the ambition of succeeding former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT).
He said there will be no hope for the country if those who double-speak, are made to preside over certain levels of government.
The national caucus of the had PDP last Tuesday retained the present zoning formula of the party.
The formula is as follows: President (South-South); Vice-President (North-West); Senate President (North Central);
Speaker (South-West); Deputy Senate President (South-East); Deputy Speaker (North-East); National Chairman (North East); SGF (South-East); Senate Leader (South-West);
House Leader (South-South); Senate Chief Whip (North-West); and the House Chief Whip (South-East).
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