*…sets up committee on zoning presidential ticket

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 sources hinted that even if the party leadership was conscious of being insensitive to the current mood and did not announce that it would keep the presidency in the North, it may eventually throw the contest open, which ultimately might still leave the North in a vantage position.

…since 1999
A party source, familiar with the development, contended that out of the PDP’s 16 years reign, the South had been ahead of the North, a situation that is believed to work against a southern presidency in the PDP in 2023.

The PDP source noted that in 1999, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a southerner, spent eight years in office before the late Umaru Yar’Adua, a northerner, took over the reins of power, spent two years and 341 days.

Yar’Adua’s death paved the way for Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, who went on to complete the term and subsequently ran another four years in office.

This, sources claimed, was the reason the PDP leadership could neither explain nor defend the choice of a southerner as its next presidential candidate, regardless of the choices available to other interests.

A PDP source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity said: “It is, therefore, cheeky and outright mischief for anyone to factor in the military era, which we all consider an aberration as part of the time for either of the zones.

“The nation started on a clean slate in 1999 and the arithmetic thereof is valid in the sharing formula.”

The source, however, stated that if the choice was left open, no presidential aspirant from the South would give the idea a shot.

This, he said, could mean the southerners in the PDP also understood the situation as much as their northern counterparts.

A committee has been set up to look into zoning— PDP
Efforts, however, to get the National Publicity of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, proved abortive as his number was not reachable.

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

“It is not ideal to preempt the committee,” he added.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/why-pdp-may-zone-2023-presidential-ticket-to-north/

They should zone it to where they like. 2023 will take care of itself. Everything lori iro.

Pdp are already confusing themselves.

We read last week that they would be zoning to South.

Whichever way, Pdp is already dead in Nigeria, 2023 is their final burial

Who among you care about Presidency?
Cos for me
Biafra is all I want
Kastina is enjoying buhari Presidency in quantum
Hence I don’t need it

2023 is for the South East/South South. Anyway, PDP is already a dead party, so doesn't matter.

... Same all Shit

And the recycling continues

Confused

should PDP give atiku that ticket again is free ride for tinubu.

PDP has refused to rate South East.Gov Umahi of Ebonyi went to the extent of extracting commitment from them for 2023, but they refused to give him assurance. How can you treat the most loyal zone since 1999 with disdain and ineptitude.

THE PONMO GANG ABOVE ME DON DEY SHED TEARS ALREADY, BY THE TIME PDP GO ZONE THEIR TICKET TO NORTH, HE WILL SHED BLOOD

Daily Times and Vanguard are speculating deferently

BUHARI IS FROM THE SOUTH, HIS 8 YEARS IS NOT ENOUGH, NOT ENOUGH FULANI KILLING.


ANYWAY, SOME PEOPLE ARE ALREADY READY TO HAVE THEIR OWN COUNTRY.


NIGERIA IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY.

theBLOODofJESUS:
2023 is for the South East/South South. Anyway, PDP is already a dead party, so doesn't matter.

You deactivated one account and switch to another one..

Who are you deceiving silvernorgold

Monogamy:
Pdp are already confusing themselves.

We read last week that they would be zoning to South.

Whichever way, Pdp is already dead in Nigeria, 2023 is their final burial

Did you hear any of these nonsense from any PDP executives? These are just imagination of the writers. When they are speculating, they will tag it "unnamed source"

Monogamy:


You deactivated one account and switch to another one..

Who are you deceiving silvernorgold

NA RELIGION HE WAN USE THIS TIME AROUND

Lol

Noted

Must it be the north always. When will south realise that a united south is the best way to do away with the northern colonization.

Zone it to anywhere is not gonna save this nation.The only solution to the myriads of problems bedevilling this false contraption of a nation is disintegration into regional governments.

There are many things the central can more do hence necessitating creation of regional security agencies, pooling local mineral resources, initiating policies and developing @ their own pace.

Let north becomes next president and see Nigeria disintegrates, even the remaining 2 years of bubu is like 20 years for southerners

#SOUTHNEST#

Confused set of people. Today they will say North , tomorrow South. APC = PDP

Nonsense and Ingredients.

Selfish people.

rangerover:
Must it be the north always. When will south realise that a united south is the best way to do away with the northern colonization.

What an elder sees while sleeping, a myopic mind like yours won't see it, while standing on Zuma rock.

The struggle is between the Northern oligarchs & Northern paupers, while in the south its between the Southern bourgeois & Southern poor people. The fight is never about tribe or religion but class struggle.

Not my business. Any zone producing a president has never been a good thing to the zone. So what concerns Agbero with overload?

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Despite the level of faithfulness of our 'developers' neighbors? PDP no get mercy at all.

Wetin be my own self...

If they like let them zone it to the moon, this country has failed. Only God can redeem this nation.

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