The All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders Forum has endorsed the zoning formula introduced in Anambra State by the former governor, Mr Peter Obi.
This is coming ahead of the Anambra State governorship election in 2025.
They chorused that the governorship zoning was generally agreed upon by all the political parties in the state when Obi announced it.
Anambra State Chairman of the APC Elders’ Forum, Sir, Innocent Obi, declared that anybody who tried to scuttle the zoning arrangement would be doing so at their own risk.
Obi spoke at the Ahocol Estate in Awka, after the meeting of the Forum, which attracted the members from all the 21 local government areas.
He assured that the elders were mobilizing daily at the grassroots level in readiness for the upcoming governorship election.
He said that the forum was busy proffering solutions to knotty issues that could bring problems to the election.
Obi said, “We’re there, we’re working and we have a cordial relationship with the state executive of the party.
“Whatever you do, you have to face the court of public opinion. There was an agreement to the effect that this is the way things should be going in Anambra state.
“In Imo State all the political parties gathered together for what they, I think, called equity charter. The idea is if you take, I take. If you take all, you know what it means.
“For me, an agreement is an agreement whether written or not. There’s a system already at work in Anambra state.
” Anybody who denies that is not telling the truth. As elders, we should say it the way it is.
“An arrangement is on the ground. During the 2022 election, the party that pretended that zoning was nonsense suffered for it.
“They suffered because someone who contested under their platform did not come from where that post should go.
“Whatever decision our party comes up with, the elders must go with them because we’re under them. There’s an arrangement on the ground, if the party touches it, there’s nothing the elders can do.”