Read Why PDP May Zone 2023 Presidential Ticket To North

 

THERE are strong indications that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may not zone its presidential ticket and may leave the contest open to all presidential aspirants from all parts of the country in 2023.

Some power brokers in the PDP are angling for the ticket to be zoned to the North, arguing that the party stands a better chance of winning the 2023 presidential election if it retained the ticket in the North.

This is despite the pressure from the southern part of the country or the choices of other political parties, particularly the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which has resolved in principle to zone the presidency to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years in 2023.

Multiple PDP resources hinted that even though the birthday party leadership turned into aware of being insensitive to the present day mood and did now not announce that it'd maintain the presidency in the North, it can finally throw the contest open, which in the end might still depart the North in a vantage role.

…given that 1999
A celebration source, acquainted with the improvement, contended that out of the PDP’s 16 years reign, the South had been in advance of the North, a state of affairs that is believed to work against a southern presidency within the PDP in 2023.

The PDP supply mentioned that in 1999, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a southerner, spent eight years in office before the past due Umaru Yar’Adua, a northerner, took over the reins of electricity, spent two years and 341 days.

Yar’Adua’s death paved the manner for Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, who went on to complete the term and subsequently ran some other 4 years in workplace.

This, resources claimed, turned into the purpose the PDP leadership may want to neither provide an explanation for nor protect the choice of a southerner as its next presidential candidate, regardless of the picks to be had to other pastimes.

A PDP supply, who spoke at the condition of anonymity stated: “It is, consequently, cheeky and outright mischief for all people to component within the army era, which we all don't forget an aberration as part of the time for both of the zones.

“The state started out on a smooth slate in 1999 and the arithmetic thereof is valid inside the sharing formulation.”

The supply, but, said that if the selection changed into left open, no presidential aspirant from the South could give the concept a shot.

This, he stated, should suggest the southerners within the PDP also understood the state of affairs as a whole lot as their northern counterparts.

A committee has been set up to look into zoning— PDP
Efforts, but, to get the National Publicity of the birthday celebration, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, proved abortive as his range changed into now not reachable.

But the PDP’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Diran Odeyemi said: “I cannot verify that, however there's already a committee that has been set up to look at the issue of zoning.”

“It isn't always perfect to preempt the committee,” he brought.