Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode, has pleaded with the party’s stakeholders in the Southeast region to concede the position of running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party’s standard-bearer, to Southwest.

George, who made the appeal yesterday in a phone discussion with The Guardian, said it was imperative of the Southeast zone to concede the running mate slot to Southwest now on the grounds that in the event that Atiku wins the presidential election next year and takes eight years in office, whenever the pendulum shifts back to the South “the presidential slot would automatically go to Southeast.

“But if the region decides to take the vice president slot now, it would be awkward for it to say after spending eight years as running mate that it would go ahead to produce a president.


“Such calculation will not work, because a region cannot produce the vice president and president for 16 years running.”

George therefore appealed to the stakeholders in the Southeast to consider the future and on the benefit of doubt that the party would trash the ruling All Progressives Congress in the next general election, Igbo people should allow the Yoruba produce Atiku’s running mate.

The former deputy national chairman said: “Putting into consideration the importance of numbers in the coming election and the need to defeat APC, Southwest stand a better advantage in terms of registered number of voters.

https://t.guardian.ng/politics/concede-vp-slot-to-southwest-george-urges-southeast/

Mbanu! They can't try it. Atiku can't try it. PDP can't try it.

Pick VP from any region that is not SE, and see how we all will boycott the election. Whether you pick from SW or not, they will vote for APC because of their supremacy there. And they won't trade Osibanjo who they see as a technocrat for another Yoruba VP.

Atiku please don't allow these APC miscreants cajole you into picking VP from SW. All the people shouting for SW VP are all APC members.

You need SE and SS votes. May God give Atiku the wisdom of Solomon.


Let's ATIKULATE


Edited: To all you saying you already have Igbos. It doesn't work that way with Igbos. If Atiku picks VP from SW, Igbos will see it as another marginalization and lose hope in Nigeria again. Yes, we won't vote for Buhari/APC because he killed our kinsmen with python dance, but we will either boycott the elections or we intentionally vote for another party (remember Oby Ezekwesili has a party) and continue the struggle for Referendum or Restructuring. The only thing that will pull an Igbo man out of his house to the polling unit is when he has a brother running for election. Atiku shouldn't do anything that will make him lose SE/SS votes....no matter what:

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Who takes Bode George 'tewonde' George serious again? Ordinary Wike humiliated you and you ran away

Originallly ,VP was zoned to SE last year.
I don't know why this issue of VP should be controversial.

Story

Here we go....

Correct!
But Obasanjo may give it out.

Ok, no problem..

As long as Buhari goes home, we are okay..

SW doesn't need it. It belongs to SE.

It will not matter. Only one jagaban in the south west and he is for buhari

Don't worry George, when Atiku is done with his eight years with a VP from the southeast( that is if he is not kicked out after 4 years) and the presidency is zoned to the south we will know what to do, eight years is a looonnnnngggg time to figure out the next step OK?

This yoruba people think say na only them waka come, as if after Atiku's rule, the south west will emerge as the flag bearer for the next presidential election and south south and south east go sitdone dey look them like mumu.

I don't care where the VP will come from,all I care about is my dear country.

Ok

The answer is CAPITAL NO

Correct... seconded

Jokers

George must be high on Oshogbo weed. No way.

We should all make sacrifices to redeem Nigeria from the calamity called Buhari...

Choose ye today whom ye will vote, as for me and my house,, we will vote Atiku

I will take them seriously when dey lobby their APC brothers into conceding the VP position to SE

CC LZAA

No sir. The same zoning arrangement that zoned presidency to the north, zoned V.P to SE

Una never enter first, una don dey think of ruling for next 16 years

In as much as buhari exit is a task that must be achieved, why should VP slot be left to sw?

useless man. so you want atiku to so 8years abi? atiku must only do four years and handover to his ibo vp

The same southwest that will betray Atiku and vote for APC?