2019: Kogi west PDP agitates for governorship slot

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kogi west senatorial district on Monday said the zone should produce the next governorship candidate of the party.

Apart from this, the zone also recommended the sustenance of the principle of rotation of party and elective offices within the zone ahead of the 2019 elections.

Specifically, the party resolved that the next senatorial candidate for the senatorial district should emerge from Yagba Federal Constituency.

These were among the recommendations of the ”Strategic Committee on Elections into Party Offices and General Elections”, submitted to the party’s executive committee in Kabba, Kogi State.  
The report recommended that the people of Kogi West must unite in their agitation to produce the next governor of the state.

The 23-man committee, headed by Alhaji Muhammed Abdulrahman, was set up by the Kogi West senatorial chairman of the PDP, Taiwo Kola-Ojo, to x-ray the causes of the defeat suffered by the party in the 2015 elections and also to recommend “solutions that will promote reconciliation as well as provide the roadmap that will help the party in overcoming the present challenges”.

The party noted that the zone had supported the two other senatorial districts- Kogi East and Kogi Central, in the past elections, saying it was time for them to support a governorship candidate to emerge from the west.

It emphasized that the agitation for power shift to Kogi West would form the basis of the zone’s relationship with the Igala and Ebira dominated Kogi East and Central Districts respectively in future elections.

It said, “Kogi West Senatorial District must ensure the rotation of the senate seat at the national assembly between her constituents (the federal constituencies of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu, Lokoj/Koto and Yagba); National and state offices zoned to Kogi West must be rotated within the zone.

“The same principle must be applied in appointments both at state and national levels. The candidate for the election into the senate for 2019 should come from Yagba Federal Constituency, after which it goes back to Lokoja/Koto and Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu”.

“The PDP in Kogi West Senatorial District must continue to ask/agitate for power shift and this must form the basis of our relationship with the other districts in future elections”.