The Deputy President of the Senate, Senetor Ike Ekweremadu, has said that there is no tension within the Peoples Democratic Party.

He said there was no secret zoning of national offices of the PDP by some of the party’s leaders as being rumoured.

He described those peddling such rumour as authors of confusion, adding that such people did not wish the party well and that they were scared of PDP’s steady resurgence after the 2015 general elections.


 
The PDP National Executive Committee early in the week mandated the National Working Committee to set up a team that would determine how to zone its national offices.

Our correspondent gathered that the delay in setting up the team among three other committees as directed by the NEC necessitated the fear in some quarters about alleged secret zoning of offices.

But Ekweremadu debunked the rumour.

He said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that the national leadership of the party did not hold any secret meeting on the issue.

Ekweremadu said, “There is, so far, no meeting, secret or open, where all or a few PDP party leaders met to zone the National Working Committee offices of the party.

“The PDP’s constitution is clear on how the party can arrive at a zoning formula. Besides, it should be clear to all that the days of any form of impunity and underhandedness within Africa’s biggest party are gone.

“We are committed to returning fully to the founding principles and philosophies of the PDP.

“Therefore, there can never be any secret zoning of PDP’s NWC positions or any other office for that matter. Such exists only in propaganda rooms and imaginations of those who are afraid that we are steadily reinforcing, reforming and coming back stronger to give the nation a more purposeful leadership.”

While urging Nigerians to disregard the report, Ekweremadu added, “The PDP will soon convene a meeting of the relevant stakeholders and organs of the party as stipulated by our constitution to come up with a clear zoning of the national offices of the party in a transparent, democratic and fair manner.”