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By Tonye Barcanista

Penultimate to the election of 2015, leaders of Peoples Democratic Party from the north led agitation for power shift to the region. The argument then was that it was immoral for President Goodluck Jonathan, as then was, to seek reelection under the platform of the party having entered a pact not to do so.

Seeing that they couldn't stop President Jonathan from getting the nomination of the party, they activated plan B. Some of them, like Senator Bukola Saraki, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and host of others alongside their supporters switched to the newly formed merger, All Progressive Congress, to actualise their ambition for power shift to north. Alhaji Abubakar and Governor Kwankwaso vied for the nomination of their new party but lost to General Muhammadu Buhari. Their comrades, which remained in PDP, internally worked against PDP and Jonathan.

All of these northern politicians, alongside others, fully supported the campaign of General Buhari, which culminated into his victory over President Jonathan, and thereby actualising powers shift to the north.

Rather than to support President Jonathan, who was restricted to only 4 years in office (if reelected), they miscalculated by supporting General Muhammadu Buhari who they never knew had plans to seek reelection in 2019. When they saw the handwriting on the wall that President Buhari was to seek reelection and was favored for the nomination, they returned to PDP to lay claim to the Presidential ticket of the party. The same PDP they deserted and made to lose central power in 2015.

Southern PDP Chieftains, out of their magnanimity and need for equity and fairness, wholly accepted these returnees and backed zoning of the 2019 Presidential ticket to northern part of the country in line with equity and fairness. That process threw up Alhaji Abubakar, who had left in 2014 but returned in 2018 as the candidate of the party, to challenge President Buhari of APC.

As we approach 2023, it would be unfair for the party to shortchange the south in the guise of appeasing these northern chieftains. I hold two reasons for this;

The first is that President Buhari, who these northern PDP chieftains helped bring to power, is a northerner. And it won't be fair to the south for another northerner to seek to succeed him as after uninterrupted eight years in office in 2023. The moral thing is for the party to look towards the south instead.

Secondly, the southern PDP, and by extension southern Nigeria, was the biggest loser in the loss of PDP and Jonathan in 2015. More so, for the fact that the 2015 loss was catalysed by the actions of these northern PDP chieftains, it would be unfair and amount to double tragedy for the region to be made to give up its opportunity to appease the same people that brought about the tragedy.

Therefore, the PDP Zoning Committee under the leadership of His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, should as a matter of patriotism, fairness and justice, do the needful by zoning the party's National Chairmanship seat to the north and the Presidential ticket to the south.

May I also state that the south, being the stronghold of the party, is capable to galvanise support for a Presidential candidate from the south and deliver victory to the party at the polls in 2023. Furthermore, more than 55% of the northern electorates are comfortable with power shift to the south in 2023, and are looking up to PDP to make this happen.


I remain Tamunotonye Tonye Barcanista Inioribo

https://www.nairaland.com/6726995/2023-why-pdp-cannot-afford

Just last month, you advocated for PDP to throw its presidential ticket open and not zone it to the south. Barely three weeks later, you are back with another thread to advocate for the same ticket to be zoned to the south. Guy, is FFK your mentor? It seems you guys have lots of things in common.
I come in peace

I have said it before; However, let me repeat it here for the sake of the uninitiated, any party that fields a Northerner in 2023, will lose the election before the first ballot is cast.

The kind of rigging that would happen in the South, even if the North counted all the cows in the desert they won't meet up the figures that we are going churn out from the South..

Enough Said!

seunmsg:
https://www.nairaland.com/6726995/2023-why-pdp-cannot-afford

Just last month, you advocated for PDP to throw its presidential ticket open and not zone it to the south. Barely three weeks later, you are back with another thread to advocate for the same ticket to be zoned to the south. Guy, is FFK your mentor? It seems you guys have lots of things in common.
I come in peace

It's good you brought that up! The problem with people like you is that you don't read beyond headline!

If you read the first thread, you will see where I stated that it would be unfair for the north to be preferred after the tenure of Buhari... Now in this thread, I looked at the issue once again and come to reality that the plight of northern PDP agitators was self inflicted... Through the support given to Buhari.

The two threads aren't contradictory, the second simply address the issue from an angle that the first didnt capture.

Now who is like FFK? YOU! How, you talk because you feel like talking rather than intellectually engage.

The problem with FFK is that he jumps, like you just did, to cast aspersion but always got humbled at the end- like I just did to you.

Morals and politics? What's the relation...

Huge joke

They may well also be double agents.....

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BigSarah:
Morals and politics? What's the relation...

Huge joke

As in eh

Any northerner, be you Atiku, pantiku or bratiku will be rejected!

Honestly, I don’t have issues with your position. But you keep falling into the pit of ethnic myopia and it’s related concepts. Northerners clamoring for presidency are doing it for their own personal ambition and they are NOT representative of the Northern People. Same way with most southerners as well. So, fitting it into this perspective that North wants Presidency just doesn’t cut it for me

You hit the nail bro.

Ok

The Northern political wing of PDP is the life line

Take them out of the picture and party will cease to exist.

What concerns morality with politics.
Nothing.


Abeg i get two iPhones for sale

Quite surprised to see the U-turn of Tonye. I thought you were advocating for Atiku? So what brought about this sudden change? What part of the south do you advocate the Presidential ticket to be zoned to? The SE, SS or SW.

At least you just spoke about for equity reasons in your article, the reason I want clarification?

I'll never understand Atiku not supporting Jonathan in 2015...

All you had to do was wait 4 years...

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PDP is a terrorist Party....is no longer existing



Party now belongs to IPOB Taliban- Vanguard

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terrorism is government
government is ruled with terror

too much error
trying to make a better government for nigeria will most likely turn zero

because their are uncountable hidden errors their which will be capable of choking anybody who find himself their, and until he concord he live in terror. and may not do any better

Osibanjo/Zulum will take over from 2023!

Northerners

EILTD:
Quite surprised to see the U-turn of Tonye. I thought you were advocating for Atiku? So what brought about this sudden change? What part of the south do you advocate the Presidential ticket to be zoned to? The SE, SS or SW.

At least you just spoke about for equity reasons in your article, the reason I want clarification?

Atiku’s money has expired.

seunmsg:
https://www.nairaland.com/6726995/2023-why-pdp-cannot-afford

Just last month, you advocated for PDP to throw its presidential ticket open and not zone it to the south. Barely three weeks later, you are back with another thread to advocate for the same ticket to be zoned to the south. Guy, is FFK your mentor? It seems you guys have lots of things in common.
I come in peace

Na today you know say the OP is a very inconsistent sombori.
The guy has been inconsistent in his views since the year 2015.
The best thing is just to take everything he says with a pinch of salt.

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If PDP fields a Northern candidate, it will lose. If Apc fields a Northern candidate, it will lose. Any party that fields a Northern candidate in 2023 will lose. Northerners are romancing Igbos thinking the VP ticket will get them SE votes.

Look at the picture attached. In 2011, Buhari was thinking like a regional champion. He won the Northern states but lost woefully despite using an Igbo man as VP to garner Igbo votes.

2023, this will repeat itself. Any party who foolishly gives the North its ticket will lose. Guaranteed.

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TonyeBarcanista:

It's good you brought that up! The problem with people like you is that you don't read beyond headline!

If you read the first thread, you will see where I stated that it would be unfair for the north to be preferred after the tenure of Buhari... Now in this thread, I looked at the issue once again and come to reality that the plight of northern PDP agitators was self inflicted... Through the support given to Buhari.

The two threads aren't contradictory, the second simply address the issue from an angle that the first didnt capture.

Now who is like FFK? YOU! How, you talk because you feel like talking rather than intellectually engage.

The problem with FFK is that he jumps, like you just did, to cast aspersion but always got humbled at the end- like I just did to you.

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That is how you keep begging for crumbs for politicians every 4 years. You started this nonsense right from when Obanikoro was contesting for Governorship in Lagos. Today, his son is in the House of Reps, you are still going political houseboy.
You are a political prostitute, morally bankrupt, ethically Unstable, of no fixed occupation and a political housefly. Keep perching from table to table till you perch on the wrong table.

May we NOT go back to Egypt the 2nd time.MUHAMMADU really ruin the Economy.

No way to Northern agenda. The southy don wake up.

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