As a part of its buildup to reclaim Anambra within the 2025 governorship election of the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders Discussion board has insisted that zoning ought to stay as typically agreed by all of the political events.
Rising from a gathering in Awka, Wednesday, with Chief Harmless Obi as its Chairman the discussion board declared that anyone who tried to scuttle the zoning association could be doing so at his or her personal danger.
Chief Obi talking on behalf of the elders drawn from the 21 Native Governement Areas of the state assured that the elders had been mobilizing each day on the grassroots stage in readiness for the upcoming gubernatorial election.
He stated that the discussion board was busy preferring options to naughty points that would carry issues to the election.
The physique language of the elders was that the zoning to Anambra South ought to be sacrosanct.
“We’re there, we’re working and we’ve cordial relationship with the state govt of the occasion.
“No matter you do, it’s a must to face courtroom of public opinion. There was an settlement to the impact that that is the best way issues ought to be getting into Anambra state.
“In Imo state all of the political events gathered collectively for what they, I believe, known as fairness constitution. The concept is in the event you take, I take. For those who take all, you realize what it means.
“For me, an settlement is an settlement whether or not written or not. There’s a system already at work in Anambra state. Anyone who denies that isn’t saying the reality. As elders, we should always say it the best way it’s.
“An association is on the bottom. Throughout the 2022 election, the occasion that pretended that zoning is nonsense suffered for it. They suffered as a result of somebody who contested beneath their platform didn’t come from the place that publish ought to go.
“No matter resolution our occasion comes up with, the elders should go along with them as a result of we’re beneath them.
“There’s an association on the bottom, if the occasion touches it, there’s nothing the elders can do. However our prayer is that the occasion is not going to tamper with the preparations on the grounds. We imagine that anyone who has taken his flip ought to shift.
“The elders might be happy if the candidate comes from the South. For those who ask me, the South has executed 4 years and the South has 4 years additional, “he concluded.
One of many elders, Mr Okey Chukwuogo who additionally spoke stated the zoning began with the previous Governor of the state, Mr Peter Obi.
He stated that Obi introduced the zoning association to all of the stakeholders within the state together with the city unions and conventional rulers who he stated endorsed the system.
“Then if all these our bodies endorsed it, can anyone say Anambra just isn’t zoned? I’m saying that there’s zoning, however energy just isn’t given, it’s taken, “he added.