THE verbal war between former military president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and President Goodluck Jonathan over zoning persisted Thursday.
Babangida asked Jonathan to search his conscience over the zoning formula introduced by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to give every geo-political zone an opportunity to lead the country.
He said Jonathan should remember that he rode on the zoning ladder to power and could not abandon the formula midstream.
Responding to a quit PDP notice served on him by Jonathan camp on Wednesday, Babangida said history would soon vindicate the just.
A statement by the Director, Media and Communications, IBB 2011 Presidential Campaign Organisation, Prince Kassim Afegbua, reads in part:" From the office of the President to the smallest office in the land within the PDP, zoning was applied in order to encourage and promote sense of belonging in every member.
"If they are now trying to remove the ladder with which they climbed to the leadership rostrum, they have their consciences to battle with. They alone carry the moral burden and the weight of history would come to bear on them.
"It amounts to crass opportunism, gullibility, and bad-spiritedness for anyone to attempt to shift the goal post at the middle of the game.
"It is not an accident of history that all foreign agencies are dishing out unpleasant statistics about Nigeria 's declining economic rating.
"The failing economy with refurbished statistics, presents to Nigerians home and abroad, a very gloomy picture that requires strength of character, courage and vision on the part of the leader to help address these obvious misnomers that are staring us in the face", Babangida said.
I leave you to your conscience, IBB tells Jonathan (http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/21275.html)