 Former governor of a do-state, Comrade Adam Zosimole, on Wednesday said the President Bola Tinobu has affirmed that he is committed only to free and fair primaries, not based on zoning. Zosimole also kicked against the contentious zoning of the governor's ship slot in a do-state and queried the all-progressive Congress APC on its insistence in zoning in the state, but looked the other way in Kogi, where the kinsman of former governor Yahya Bello took over from him. He maintained that it will be unfair for the APC to implement zoning in the party's rescheduled primary for the forthcoming combinatorial election, when it did not do so in Kogi and Benware states. The President said, as far as his cosine is committed, only to free and fair primaries, not based on zoning, because you don't do zoning at the eve of a primary. If they go to the zoning, those involved in the decision, we have to be so comprehensive that the people of the state, you know, understand it. Number two, if you are zoning, you will not allow people who are not from the particular zone to procure forms. Now, the National Secretariat of the Parties on Record has issued a statement which was widely used to the effort that the APC's governorship ticket was open to anyone who is eligible to procure the nomination form, which was why, at the end of the day, we have 12 candidates that procure the form. So the key issue in my conversation with Mr. President is that the primaries that have been rescheduled for tomorrow to continue is not based on, and will not be based on, zoning, be based on free and fair primaries. I am not a product of zoning. I am not a believer in term-by-term democracy. I believe Nigeria will do better when it puts its best foot forward. But the important thing is that I have the authority of the President, and you can approach it. I told him, can I announce what I discussed, whether or not tomorrow's run-up election is based on zoning, and he said, no, no zoning. It's merit and fairness.