The dream of the founding fathers of any political party in the world is that its members share the same vision with them, follow in their footsteps and preserve their lasting legacy. This is naturally what successive members of the party are expected to stand for, especially when the vision and legacy respond to the challenges of their times. But when the opposite happens due to unexpected changes in the political equation, immediate changes need to be made within the party to avoid a colossal defeat in the elections. The founding fathers of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) reached, sometimes in 2002, a controversial informal agreement on the rotation (zoning) of strategic elective positions along the northern and southern axis of the country. Their goal was for the party to gain national acceptability among the country's various ethnic groups and, above all, to respond to the unrest among the population in the southwest of the country. Now that the PDP dominated the political atmosphere of the country; with relative national acceptability and no scores to settle with the people of any part of the country, the zoning arrangement must be abandoned to create an egalitarian Nigerian state. With the demise of our beloved President Umaru Yar'adua - a Northerner and Since the ascension to power of his deputy, Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, a Southerner, before the official end of the first four-year term of Yar'dua in 2011, the political equation was considerably changed. This incident caused tension in the political arena, with conservatives, mostly from the north of the country, insisting that the current president should not run, in accordance with the gentleman's agreement reached in 20... .. in the middle of the newspaper.... ..s to meet the aspirations of 150 million Nigerians. While a non-PDP member may not care that much about the PDP zoning deal, it is important for Nigerians to pressure the party to do the right thing because, what Whatever decision the party makes, it will affect us all. In view of the above, we must be prepared to throw our weight behind any issue that will directly or indirectly affect us as a nation. We must, as a matter of urgency, address other issues such as electoral reform and strict adherence to the rule of law, zero tolerance for corruption and combating any form of anti-democratic tendencies of our leaders. Finally, the cancellation of the zoning agreement is only a step forward towards the consolidation of the country's democratic achievements. We must take advantage of the current situation and push for meaningful change that we all believe in..