The Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, is grappling with contemporary inner discord as influential blocs inside Lagos and Osun States brazenly rejected the social gathering’s zoning association, as an alternative rallying behind outstanding enterprise chief, Dr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, as their most well-liked flagbearer for the 2027 basic elections.
The rising pushback towards zoning is fueling issues amongst social gathering loyalists that the event might set off main realignments throughout the PDP forward of the essential polls.
In Osogbo, stakeholders converged beneath the platform of the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Motion, GHSM, led by its South West Coordinator, Alhaji Abass Olaniyi, who declared that Nigeria’s future ought to not be tied to sectional politics.
“The period of division is over in Nigeria. What the nation wants now’s competence, capability, and a unifier,” Olaniyi said.
An identical sentiment was echoed in Lagos, the place a coalition of native authorities and senatorial leaders, coordinated by Hon. Ola Azeez, additionally denounced the zoning method.
“This can be a new period. The nation should rise above sectional divides and embrace competence and functionality, embodied within the imaginative and prescient Hashim represents,” Azeez declared.
The simultaneous rallies in each states mirror a wider pushback towards the PDP management. Solely final week, social gathering figures in Oyo and Ondo states issued robust warnings towards zoning, arguing it might deepen rifts slightly than unite the opposition.
The agitation just isn’t restricted to the South-West. Within the Federal Capital Territory, the PDP chapter has already endorsed Olawepo-Hashim, whereas social gathering stakeholders in Plateau and Kano have staged protests and voiced robust resistance to the zoning template.
