As part of efforts aimed at wooing the South-West, the Peoples Democratic Party has decided to surrender the position of Speaker of House of Representatives to the region if it wins the 2019 presidential election, THE PUNCH learnt on Tuesday night.

The party had earlier ceded the position of Secretary to the Government of the Federation to the same region.

These were part of a political strategy being planned by the party to enable voters from the region to vote for its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Mr Peter Obi.

The current Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), who is also running with President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, hails from Ogun State, in South-West.

Investigations by our correspondent showed that the leadership of the PDP and Atiku had disclosed this at their meeting in Dubai, where the presidential candidate is currently holidaying.

Authoritative sources close to the party and its presidential candidate, told our correspondent on condition of anonymity in Abuja on Tuesday, that the party had mapped out strategies that would enable it to beat the ruling APC in the zone in 2019.

A source, who was privy to the arrangement said, “You know that the South-West has the Vice-President in the person of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo now. But apart from that position and some ministers, nothing tangible has come to the region in term of infrastructure.

“The position of Vice-President is almost ceremonial. The South-West will get the position of the SGF as announced by Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

“But apart from this, the zone will also get the position of the Speaker of House of Representatives. We know that we will make it in the zone. This is because all the states in the country have suffered from the present Federal Government. “

Meanwhile, the PDP’s fortunes in the 2019 presidential election has received a boost with women in Kogi State announcing their plan to stage a 1.2 million-man march in support of Atiku.

This is just as the PDP has announced the streamlining of all its presidential support and volunteer groups across the country, to ensure a centralised activity under the supervision of the party and the Presidential Campaign Council.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, who received a delegation of a presidential women support group, Success Initiative Women for Atiku, at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, stated that the party had opened strategic platforms for all the support groups to directly participate in the campaign.

He said the PDP had received “unprecedented goodwill and support from millions of Nigerians across all sections of the country, irrespective of ethnicity, religious and political leaning, since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as our presidential candidate.”

Earlier, the leader of the group, Mr Funso Johnson, congratulated the party for the choice of Atiku as presidential candidate while informing of the plans already perfected to stage a 1.2 million-man match in support of Atiku in Kogi State.

BeeBeeOoh:


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Godjone:
see party wey ready for governance unlike that olofofo useless govt called apcheat

FortifiedCity:
So what will happen to dogara?

seunmsg:


They are trying to deceive the south west.

Drchristian:

Yoruba people often vote for the best candidate in Nigeria they won't bcus of speaker vote a thievery party PDP.

Fayose, Obasanjo, Saraki, Atiku, FFK are thieves supported by Igbos to destroy this nation so that they can get BIAFRA.

FortifiedCity:
So what will happen to dogara?

Aquariann:
From number 2 to number 4? And suddenly the Vp post is ceremonial, yet the SE were threatening for it else they wouldn't vote for the PDP?

Una think say SW come play for naija abi?

Again to throw the chance of becoming number 1 in 2023 for the post of SGF, a political appointee that can be fired any day? Besides, Gbenga Daniel as governor of Ogun, what were his achievement in the state?

APC we know in the SW
Buhari till 2023
Osin bobo till 2031

abc115:
South West should abandon VP and Presidency in 2023 for FHoR Speaker? Politics is about interest

PDP are learners. PDP should forget about returning to Aso Rock for now


Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Drchristian:

Yoruba people often vote for the best candidate in Nigeria they won't bcus of speaker vote a thievery party PDP.

Fayose, Obasanjo, Saraki, Atiku, FFK are thieves supported by Igbos to destroy this nation so that they can get BIAFRA.

seunmsg:


They are trying to deceive the south west. Dogara is recontesting and has all the advantage if PDP wins majority of seats in the house. Only a nitwit from the south west would believe this watery promise.

The same way PDP promised south west speakership before the 2011 election. We voted massively for Jonathan and he looked away cinveniently as Tambuwal emerged speaker after election. Despite cries by Obasanjo and Yoruba PDP leaders, Jonathan did nothing about it.

They also promised to zone the party chairmanship to south west after 2015 general election, on the day of the convention, Wike hijacked the position for Secondus from south south and even insulted the entire Yoruba race as inconsequential on national television. Atiku is playing the same game again, we must not fall for it.

tuniski:

Atiku is the next president. By the way is osinbajo your uncle/father cos him being yoruba/VP is meaningless to the suffering of the average SW except his family!

BeeBeeOoh:


A source, who was privy to the arrangement said, “You know that the South-West has the Vice-President in the person of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo now. But apart from that position and some ministers, nothing tangible has come to the region in term of infrastructure.


https://punchng.com/2019-pdp-to-cede-house-speaker-to-swest/

Drchristian:

Yoruba people often vote for the best candidate in Nigeria they won't bcus of speaker vote a thievery party PDP.

Fayose, Obasanjo, Saraki, Atiku, FFK are thieves supported by Igbos to destroy this nation so that they can get BIAFRA.