Sam Amadi, a former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has called on political parties interested in zoning their presidential tickets to pick their candidates from the south-east.
Amadi, who made the call while speaking on Thursday at a media briefing in Abuja, said the decision will ensure equity and justice.
According to the director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts: “Zoning is an abstraction from normal politics which is a need to solve a problem. So, our view in Abuja school is that if you want to zone, then the zoning should go to the south-east straight, not south-south,”
“We have been reviewing how the process of zoning is playing out, and we have a few concerns.
“Number one is that we just realised that this politics of zoning has taken a dangerous turn as a result of response to the last six or seven years of this administration which many groups feel marginalised.
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“Zoning should be properly understood. Ideally, elections should be open competition. The notion of zoning grew as a response largely during the June 12 election when the election was annulled, and the political elite, as a matter of consensus, agreed that there was the need to deal with the crisis of confidence in the south-west.
“Our view in Abuja school is that you don’t need to zone anything if you don’t think that there is a clear present danger.
“Zoning is an affirmative action. If you see a crisis that you need to respond to, and then everybody can decide to agree on zoning.”
