Amaechi begins consultation in Taraba in an attempt to woo non-APC states

Tobi Soniyi
From early permutations, THISDAY can report that the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is most likely to zone its presidential ticket to the South to match the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is expected to do the same in the 2023 presidential bout.

According to checks, governors and leaders, who currently control the party, have quietly resolved to have the next president emerge from the south in national interest to douse North-South tensions ravaging the country, which they said will be escalated if one party chooses its candidate from the North and the other from the South.

The reasoning behind this decision, it was learnt, is to promote national unity and cohesion in the face of the current crisis bedeviling the country. Multiple sources told THISDAY that the decision to settle for a candidate from the south was to match the APC, which had already agreed in principle to zone the presidency to the South after Buhari completes his tenure in 2023.

Though some power brokers in APC are moving to jettison the understanding and crown current Yobe Governor and current interim National Chairman of APC, governor Mai Mala Buni, mainstream stalwarts of the party are sticking to that understanding which will see the party rotating its ticket and zoning it to the South.


“It is clear that APC is going to the south by the power arrangements and commitment made to rotate the presidential ticket during the formative stage of the party. So, PDP will follow suit,” one of the governors told THISDAY.

The PDP leaders noted that the last presidential election, which was between two northerners brought about national stability even though the results were fiercely contested, there was no post-election violence, regardless.

They, therefore, reasoned that in the current political climate, there will be a major crisis if there is a candidate from the north and another from the south from the two main parties.

“It can lead to instability and increase the current political tensions”, one of the PDP leaders also said.

Consequently, the PDP leaders have dismissed campaign by some northern candidates, who are trying to say that the presidency has been in the south for more years than it was in the north.

These leaders argued that, cumulatively, the north had been in power more than any other region especially, when both military and civilian regimes are combined.

“So, you can clearly see that there is no argument there that the South has ruled for 13 years of PDP’s 16 years in power. If you go that route, others may as well point to the fact that the North has ruled for 43 years since independence while the South has ruled for 18 years,” a source contended.

“Right now”, he continued, “The emphasis is not on north and south but what is in the best interest of Nigeria as a country and what steps will ensure its survival. We need to have patriots who can rise to national calling, who will sacrifice their interest, or regional interest to build national cohesion for the progress of the country at this time of crisis”, another PDP leader said.


According to PDP leaders, who shared this position, the decision to field a candidate from the south is not about partisan politics but in the interest of the nation, adding that leaders from both parties should be poised to make the necessary sacrifice to ensure stability.

Other sources within PDP told THISDAY that the emerging consensus was not about PDP but about the country, and that even though a small powerful group appeared to oppose the arrangement within the ranks of the PDP, the party is expected to go ahead with the plan.


Some of those believed to be opposed to this understanding, sources claimed, include a former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. One of the PDP stalwart told THISDAY “we love Atiku and Saraki but we love Nigeria more. Nigeria cannot survive a North-South civil war, this is the time for peace.”

In the meantime, one of the APC presidential hopeful, the Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has begun his presidential campaign consultations in earnest.

He was in Taraba State last week, where he began campaign for his presidential bid by wooing non-APC states.

Many see this move as strategic in testing the waters to see if he has national appeal.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/03/07/2023-why-pdp-will-zone-presidency-to-the-south/

Foolishness. CBN and NNPC buying the PDP tickets to zone it to the south. PDP might Win if they choice Northerner and good bye to one Nigeria. Northerners will not vote Afonja after what happened in Sasha, Ogun, Ekiti, oyo, Lagos, Kwara, Ondo and Osun. Instead of PDP zoning it to the North they'll sell the candidacy to "One Nigeria" Cartel. Northerners will have no choice besides voting between Southerners. We will wait and see if both parties will nominate Christians.

Straight up! It's not strategic for PDP to zone it to South, but an emotional one.

Right now, ethnicity of presidential candidates is not the issues restructure the damned Nation. Or maybe restructure it when the Oil is about to dry. Those big smelly Ass people can shove their cassava, palm oil, and coconut into their Ass, legit don't Care.

According to checks, governors and leaders, who currently control the party, have quietly resolved to have the next president emerge from the south in national interest to douse North-South tensions ravaging the country, which they said will be escalated if one party chooses its candidate from the North and the other from the South.

Only if it's not a media wash talk.

That should be the sane thing to do

IPOBTERRORISTS:
Foolishness. CBN and NNPC buying the PDP tickets to zone it to the south. PDP might Win if they choice Northerner and good bye to one Nigeria. Northerners will not vote Afonja after what happened in Sasha, Ogun, Ekiti, oyo, Lagos, Kwara, Ondo and Osun. Instead of PDP zoning it to the North they'll sell the candidacy to "One Nigeria" Cartel. Northerners will have no choice besides voting between Southerners. We will wait and see if both parties will nominate Christians.

Straight up! It's not strategic for PDP to zone it to South, but an emotional one.

Right now, ethnicity of presidential candidates is not the issues restructure the damned Nation. Or maybe restructure it when the Oil is about to dry. Those big smelly Ass people can shove their cassava, palm oil, and coconut into their Ass, legit don't Care.

Foolishness in Pdp zoning the presidency to Southern Nigeria.

What should be the fate of SS and Most especially SE who has dedicated more than 2 decades for Pdp, the darling party.

Is SE region not interested or forbidden in the 2023 presidency race?

Yet some of you guys are shouting you don't want Fulani/Northerners again

Is that not confusion?

Mtcheewww! I beg don't mind them ooo. I'm here jare...

They better do. We’ve said it here times without number that 2023 belongs to the south and do shall it be. Atiku and other interested Northerners should go and take the back seat.

Nothing wrong in zoning the Presidential ticket to the South ...

Apc is evil..

Party of bandits criminals and greedy eyes politicians

Another four years of Apc ... those their bandits will take over our country Nigeria

Apc is the cause of insecurity in Nigeria.. their bandits won’t go ..another four years of Apc will see those bandits given amnesty and political appointments

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Asgard13:
Apc is evil..

Party of bandits criminals and greedy eyes politicians

Another four years of Apc ... those their bandits will take over our country Nigeria

Apc is the cause of insecurity in Nigeria.. their bandits won’t go ..another four years of Apc will see those bandits given amnesty and political appointments

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You do not have to reaffirm what we knew already.

Pdp are planning to zone their presidency to south according to this news.

What do you have to say about it?

seunmsg:
They better do. We’ve said it here times without number that 2023 belongs to the south and do shall it be. Atiku and other interested Northerners should go and take the back seat.

Tinubu must contest apc primaries...
Osinbajo must contest

No excuses!

Yoruba must win Apc primaries
After all Tinubu is Nigeria kingmaker

Face wetin face you.

Monogamy:


You do not have to reaffirm what we knew already.

Pdp are planning to zone their presidency to south according to this news.

What do you have to say about it?

Pdp has zoned it to North..

Yoruba paid press with their propaganda

All this Yoruba people on my mention. Is obvious Yoruba don’t understand politics in Nigeria and what’s waiting for them

Yoruba acn has been thrown under the bus ..Tinubu can’t visit asorock .. plenty dog bone hook am
Hausa don already change am for acn Apc ... no Yoruba man right now is sellable in the north and southern Nigeria
Yet Yoruba go Dey on pdp igbo matter.. some having seen their failure from afar
.... and you will see this people that Northern Nigeria have officially declare them as wives and slaves keep shouting

Guess is excess sophistication that your master openly declare you a slave
Nobody from the entire Yoruba race did counter this people
What Yoruba is doing is to turn around to call an Igbo man slave?
If this is not cowardice with alacrity.. then is outright stupidity and basic insecurity..

Pdp has zoned their ticket to north .. and nothing Yoruba people can do about it

The fear of Northern pdp candidate is the fear of Yoruba people
In the evil Apc .. Yoruba supported... where are the Yoruba humans in that party
We saw President looking fresher than the younger Osinbajo..
if that’s not master slave .. what’s it?

Na so yoruba push Tinubu.. shouting Apc leader till he became Apc major slave with his boys in the party

Yoruba send Oshiomole to politcal exile with their mouth and press

Yoruba ended political career of Osinbajo with their mouth and still ranting

I just wish Apc can dash Tinubu party ticket or osibanjo... walahi

So that Yoruba people will understand their place in Nigeria politics

For the first time ... in 2015
Yoruba came into National politics and succeeded .. because of Buhari and they will bounce out by 2023

No be noise..

Power returns to north.

Yoruba can keep their propaganda running.. is March already and 2022 is closing in..

God go keep us ..

Yoruba people go hear from Nigerians

If Yoruba no grab this presidency by 2023 ..eh..

Tap0lane:
Jews from hellfire go wail tire like lunatics over this news. The likes of Pachukwuddie77 firefire n more other lunatics parading the corridors of NL to exhibit their foolishness.

There is no need deceiving yourself.None of the big parties will zone their ticket to the South

seunmsg:
They better do. We’ve said it here times without number that 2023 belongs to the south and do shall it be. Atiku and other interested Northerners should go and take the back seat.

Who are the WE? Yorubas You people are not serious.If you still believe power will return to the SW in 2023 after the recent happenings in the country then you can believe anything

Asgard13:


Pdp has zoned it to North..

Yoruba paid press with their propaganda

Pdp has zoned it to North

But this news is saying otherwise.

Yoruba paid press with their propaganda

Na so the Yoruba's powerful reach.....

Asgard13:



Tinubu must contest apc primaries...
Osinbajo must contest

No excuses!

Yoruba must win Apc primaries
After all Tinubu is Nigeria kingmaker

Face wetin face you.

Tinubu, osibanjo,fayemi,fashola will buy nominatiion forms at the End a concesus will be reached , there is already a movement for that called Swaga2023
South west agenda , former Atiku presidential campaign manager gbenga Daniel just joined the movement.

PaChukwudi44:

Who are the WE? Yorubas You people are not serious.If you still believe power will return to the SW in 2023 after the recent happenings in the country then you can believe anything

Hahahaha..

Pachukwudi himself, don't get jittery yet, the person you quote did not mention SW but South.

Let's talk about this news .Are you not wishing for power to come to south?

Whether South-South or South-East, you see that useless region that calls Government as Gunmunt, they are the problem of this country.

PaChukwudi44:

Who are the WE? Yorubas You people are not serious.If you still believe power will return to the SW in 2023 after the recent happenings in the country then you can believe anything

pachukwudi greet onnoghen for me

You have been jumping on All Threads to argue PDP and APC ticket will be zoned to North

Have your doubt been cleared ,or you still want to argue. In Apc south west re the favorite to clinch the ticket
In Pdp south south re the favorite for the ticket

Nyamiris should can contest in pdp only if wike will sell form for them

To the south,or south/west

Asgard13:



Tinubu must contest apc primaries...
Osinbajo must contest

No excuses!

Yoruba must win Apc primaries
After all Tinubu is Nigeria kingmaker

Face wetin face you.

Forget, if he contest, he has won it already only if you understand Politics.
APC ticket is automatically for South and APC wouldn't want to lose chances of Southwest voting strength, that's aside the agreement.

You are the one(Easterners) to grow balls and Stop being a slave you are.

You laboured for party more than 2 decades yet you are not found Worthy of representing the party in presidency, what a slave.

GROW some balls and let the battle be between Igbos (PDP) and Yorubas (APC).

SLAVES

First of all, pdp does not give a damn about the state of the nation or any tension. They just want to take power and their best shot now will be to field a northerner. Reason is that due to the recent all out attacks ( the masses, politicians, conventional media and social media) by the yorubas on northerners, being salted by cheers from easterners (who are enemies of the north), the northerners no longer see the south west as allies, but enemies. Though we don't know what will happen before 2023 but if elections are held today, believe me anybody who goes up north to campaign for a South Westerner will be stonned. And the guys from the East will also not support a South Westerner when the time comes.
So if you were PDP, what would you field a northerner or southerner?

Honestly choosing between between umiah and peter obi would be very difficult .... APC would set 45% minimum of igbo voters with umiah
Honestly it's going to be hard

Asgard13:

Pdp has zoned it to North..
Yoruba paid press with their propaganda

Slave has even surrendered to their master before the contest

Those of us that knows nigeria political terrain already know this.
Atiku will still contest in another party even if pdp zone it to south.atiku will end up sharing pdp votes .apc will likely have the easiest election win in 2023 .

APC strongest zone in south is west

While pdp strongest zone in south is south south

Both might likely field their candidates here.

IPOBTERRORISTS:
Foolishness. CBN and NNPC buying the PDP tickets to zone it to the south. PDP might Win if they choice Northerner and good bye to one Nigeria. Northerners will not vote Afonja after what happened in Sasha, Ogun, Ekiti, oyo, Lagos, Kwara, Ondo and Osun. Instead of PDP zoning it to the North they'll sell the candidacy to "One Nigeria" Cartel. Northerners will have no choice besides voting between Southerners. We will wait and see if both parties will nominate Christians.

Straight up! It's not strategic for PDP to zone it to South, but an emotional one.

Right now, ethnicity of presidential candidates is not the issues restructure the damned Nation. Or maybe restructure it when the Oil is about to dry. Those big smelly Ass people can shove their cassava, palm oil, and coconut into their Ass, legit don't Care.

What is this one really talking about?

So their main reason for doing so is because apc is doing so too? Imagine

PaChukwudi44:

Who are the WE? Yorubas You people are not serious.If you still believe power will return to the SW in 2023 after the recent happenings in the country then you can believe anything

Why are you concern about us, can't you lot slaves strategize as well? We can have it continually

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