The Delta State governorship zoning crisis has taken on new dimensions, with a group calling for an ethnic nationalities confab to resolve the crisis.
Deltans Live Matter, a political pressure group, insisted for the Delta Central Senatorial District to not begin the presumed zoning of the second round of governorship. because there was no defined order or sequence in 1999 when Delta Central took the first shot at the seat.
Moses Abeh, the group’s coordinator, stated this on Tuesday in Asaba in response to the crisis roiling the state over the zoning of the governorship seat.
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“We believe in zoning based on good conscience and morality,” he said.
“Because there was no set order or sequence when Delta Central took the first shot in 1999, any of the Zones can begin this second round.
“In 1999, Delta Central fired the first shot; it is not required by law that it fire the first shot again.”
“Our proposal for the first option is that the governorship is open to all Zones.
“The zone that took the last shot earns the right to start the second round.”
“The reason is simple: Delta North has been waiting for 16 years (18 years unofficially, plus two years of Chief Ibru inclusively).
“In the first round, Delta South finished second. It is not out of the question for it to take the opening shot in the second round. “It can’t be Delta central.”
He advocated for an ethnic nationalities summit to allow stakeholders to discuss the contentious issue of zoning the governorship seat in the best interests of Deltans.
People are aware of how Delta Central aggressively contested governorship primaries against Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan (South) in 2006 and Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa (North) in 2014 in order to seize power.
