Ahead of the 2023 general election, stakeholders in Bayelsa West Senatorial district have said that zoning of National Assembly seats amongst the two local government areas, Sagbama and Ekeremor remains sacrosanct.
A spokesman for the political stakeholders in Sagbama local government area, Chief Richard Kpodoh has, therefore, called on the national executive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to resist any lobby by the Bayelsa chapter of the party to breach the zoning arrangement or risk a protest vote at the general elections.
Kpodoh, who made the call while speaking to newsmen in Yenagoa on Sunday, said the call has become imperative to pave way for the victory of the party during the forthcoming senatorial election.
The community leader explained that it is the turn of Ekeremor LGA to produce the flagbearer of the party in 2023 for Senate.
Kpodoh cautioned that if the moves to re-present the former governor of the state and serving Senator, Seriake Dickson against the zoning formula that now favours the Ekeremor people to produce the next Senator works, it may derail the party’s victory at the poll.
He also advised those lobbying to impose Seriake Dickson as senator for a second term on the people of Bayelsa West Senatorial District not to go ahead with their plans which he described as uncalled for and detrimental to the wishes of the constituents.
Kpodoh added that planting political seeds of discord and instigating crisis among the peace loving people of Bayelsa West over the ambition of one person is an aberration to the oath of office they have sworn to.
He urged the people of Bayelsa West to unite and work assiduously as one indivisible entity by ensuring that the zoning formula that now favours the Ekeremor people to produce the next Senator is actualized.
