2023 presidency: Why I won’t step down for anybody – Ex-Senate President

A presidential aspirant and former Senate President, Senator Pius Anyim, Sunday, has vowed not to step down for anybody ahead of the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Senator Anyim, who spoke on radio programme tagged Political roundtable, monitored on Mainland 98.3fm, also expressed worry at the worsening rate of insecurity just as he promised to revive the economy when elected the country’s next President.

He said: “Zoning is a constitutional matter in PDP, the worry I have is that some people may get away with it in the interim but on a long run, it will weaken that organization and the organization will not have power to protect its member, the fact that it’s a constitutional matter in the PDP.

“As of today, the committee report is yet to be considered by NEC, but they are holding this week, they are the only authority to make decisions on zoning.

“Whichever way it goes, I am in the race.

“We have zoned the party office under this current dispensation, what we did was to zone north south, each region now went back and micro zone, micro-zoning within the region.

“If rotation is based on equity and fairness the north should allow it to go south, why under the zone within the south should it allow it to go to the south east.

South east have the prerequisite experience required.

“There is no zone in this country today that you cannot find competent, capable and very ready that can make this country great.

“We have very capable, experienced, willing and ever ready people that can make this country great. By the time we reduce our democracy to naira and kobo, then we are all guilty of setting our country back

“We can work together so that nobody will say because we are fighting each other that is why it won’t come to us, we will work together to make sure we bring this to south east, who will represent is another issue we have not talk about.”