APC Disowns Viral Zoning Arrangement On 2023

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The Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee
(CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has distanced
itself from a zoning arrangement list in circulation.

The zoning arrangement for major national elective offices and
for positions in the party’s National Working Committee (NWC)
allegedly released by the party went viral on social media.

The purported arrangement was titled: “BREAKING: APC announces
zoning arrangement ahead of 2023 election year. APC 2023
presidential ticket zoning and National Working Committee.”

By the list the presidential ticket is zoned to South, Vice
President – North, Senate President – South, Deputy Senate
President – North while Speaker – North and Deputy Speaker –
South.

For the National Working Committee zoning, the list showed that
the north will produce the National Chairman, National Secretary –
South, National Treasurer – South, Financial Secretary – North,
Legal Officer – North and Welfare Officer – South.

The office of the Auditor is zoned to North, National Youth
Leader – South, National Woman Leader – South, Publicity Secretary
– South and Persons With Disability PWD Leader – South.

But the Secretary of the Caretaker Committee of the party,
Senator John James Akpanudoedehe disowned the list.

He said: “Our people should disregard the list. It is not from
the Caretaker Committee, it is not from the party.”

He maintained the party will required to make extensive
consultations before such arrangement would be arrived at, adding
zoning of offices is yet to be on the table of the Caretaker
Committee.

“As far as I am concerned, the last Caretaker Committee meeting
we had, we did not discussed that. That is not what we are
concerned with now. What we are concerned with is data collection.
How to collect data without making mistake.

“Let me say that zoning is not for the Caretaker Committee
alone. It has to do with the President, it has to do with other
major stakeholders, it has to do with a lot of people.

“I want to mute the speculation. The list is not from us (
Caretaker Committee). The President is not in town.

“There is no way such decision will be taken without consulting
with the President, consult with the governors and other major
stakeholders.”

He blamed the list on circulation on individuals interested in
contesting for one office or the other in the party, insisting the
Caretaker Committee cannot be pressurised into taking wrong
decision.