Group Advocates Documented Zoning In Rivers

Stakeholders under the aegis
of Kengema Unity Club have called for a documented agreement for zoning of political offices among ethnic nationalities or constituencies in Rivers State.
This, according to the group, would avoid a clash of interests and continued marginalisation of some ethnic groups in the state.
The group also called for the zoning of the governorship slot to Kalabari Kingdom in 2015 to compensate the Ijaws for alleged marginalisation.
Speaking through its leaders, Mrs Rosemary Brown,  after a closed door meeting of the group in Port Harcourt, recently, the group said a documented zoning arrangement would assist the political parties to know where to chose their candidates from during electioneering period.
Mrs Brown said, a situation where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wants to pick its candidate from the same ethnic group that produced governorship for two good terms was tantamount to inviting injustice and disunity among the ethnic groups that constitute the state.
Insisting that the political parties should pick their governorship candidates from areas that had never produced governor in the state, she noted that Kalabari is one of the largest ethnic groups that had never produced governorship in the state, and therefore called on other ethnic groups in the state to support the Kalabari governorship agenda for the 2015 elections.
Expressing similar views, a business mogul, Captain Opunabo Briggs said the zoning of political offices in the state would not only bring about unity and justice, but would also give all segments of the state a sense of belonging.

Enoch Epelle