Early this week the PDP zoning committee zoned the position of the party chairman to the north east, a position most people have said would most likely be picked up by Ali Modu Sheriff. Initially, I was of the opinion that the party goofed, but after careful consideration, I have come to conclusion that sheriff is the best man to head PDP at this time for the reasons highlighted below.
- a party like PDP needs funding, which sheriff has a lot of, some workers at the PDP secretariat say the secretariat has been working smoothly since sheriff took over. APC has Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar and other money bags, so they can afford having a figure head as chairman, but PDP can't afford such as things stand now.

- there's a need to raise consciousnesses in the mind of the northerners ahead of the 2019 elections, note that by 2018, sheriff's tenure would end. At this point, PDP would have a southern chairman and a northern presidential candidate. Look at the jigawa rally and see the massive crowd sheriff was able to pull.

- the APC is afraid of Sheriff. With the way APC reacted to sheriff's appointment, it is obvious the APC is afraid of sheriff, a man who was instrumental to the formation of APC.

Same politicians, different party names.