₦airaland Forum

LeoDeKing:
So you fell for that gimmick?

Peter Obi is not contesting, forget the declaration. Anyone can declare to contest.

It's all plan to mobilise SE vote for athifku.

thesicilian:
Igbo people always vote for their pockets

Adamawa Governor Umaru Fintiri was absent on Wednesday when Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum met at the Umuobiakwa, Obingwa local government area country home of Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu.

Others in attendance were Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu); Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta); Godwin Obaseki (Edo); Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto); Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Douye Diri (Bayelsa); Emmanuel Udom (Akwa Ibom) and Samuel Ortom (Benue).

Though there was no official statement by the Abia State Government over the visit of the Governors, it was gathered zoning would top the issues they will consider.

The Governors, as of the time of filing this report, were in a close- door meeting.

They would address journalists at the end of their meeting.

cktheluckyman:
For a SW candidate?? You should have a career in comedy.Tinubu should comeand defeat Atiku lets see

PrinceOfLagos:
Most Nigerians will pick Atiku over Tinubu

Atiku is more sellable than Tinubu

OBoy50:
midnight dreamer! ....we in North Central don't even Tinubu or whatever....and reverse is what you have just said cuz only southwest will vote and support a drilling ancestor..
ATIKU...is the incoming and certified PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA and nothing can change it...
ATIKU!! (THE SOUTHWEST NIGHTMARE)

Ugonna62:
But the distractions will be enough to nagatively affect their future political endavours.cant you see that umahi presidential ambition is already in the mud,and his chances of sustaining Ebonyi as APC state is very unsure,as for Ayade i dont think he can withstand the legal fireworks that will follow his imminent sack by friday,he can only appeal, buy more time while his administration last.

rolams:
He already knows his fate!

He's gone forever!

“The zone is fully in support of the position of the Southern Governor’s forum that the next President of Nigeria must come from the Southern part of Nigeria.”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains divided along the North/South lines over its presidential ticket zoning.

Yesterday, the Southsouth leadership of the party made up of governors, federal lawmakers, former governors and other stakeholders demanded that the zone should be handed the ticket “in the spirit of fairness, equity and justice.”

But the party, through its Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, declared that it would not stop presidential aspirants from the North who have indicated an interest in the ticket.



At yesterday’s summit in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, the Southsouth leaders warned that the party might lose the opportunity to retake power if it failed to allow its stronghold to produce the candidate.

The communique of the summit with the theme: “Engendering a Southsouth agenda for 2023 and beyond,” read by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, said: “The zone is fully in support of the position of the Southern Governor’s forum that the next President of Nigeria must come from the Southern part of Nigeria.”

Addressing the meeting earlier, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike asked the PDP to treat the Southsouth geo-political zone with fairness, justice and equity.

The governor said having consistently voted for the PDP since 1999, the party should not ignore the Southsouth’s contributions to its success.



Wike added: “The Southsouth is the pillar of the PDP. If the Southsouth is the pillar of the PDP, they must be treated with fairness, justice and equity.

“It is not only when it comes to work, it is not only when it comes to giving votes that we will all remember that the Southsouth is the pillar. When it also comes in terms of sharing, they should remember that this is the pillar of the party.”

Wike charged his colleagues, National Assembly members and other stakeholders from the zone to set aside their differences in the overall interest of the PDP.

“We have all said that Nigerians are waiting for PDP to take over in 2023. That is true. But we cannot take over if we are not united. We cannot take over if don’t work together.

“It is for us to put our house together and make Nigerians proud because if we don’t take over in 2023, Nigerians will never forgive PDP. We must take this opportunity and make Nigerians happy,” he said.

The governor said PDP had realised its past mistakes, and would not take Nigerians for granted when given another opportunity.

Wike said the Federal Government’s declaration that it had deleted Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act smacked of corruption.

However, no aspirant in the Southsouth zone, apart from Dele Momodu, has indicated interest to vie.

At the meeting were Governors Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom); Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) and Douye Diri (Bayelsa).

Other dignitaries in attendance included PDP National Vice Chairman (Southsouth), Chief Dan Orbih; Senator George Sekibo; former Deputy House of Reps Speaker, Austin Opara; former governors Liyel Imoke (Cross River) and Celestine Omehia (Rivers).

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki was the only Southsouth PDP governor absent at the meeting. He has been having a running battle with Wike.

Yesterday, former Senate President Bukola Saraki obtained the Presidential nomination form in Abuja.

On Sunday, Saraki at a meeting with Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal and Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed in Bauchi said the three of them had decided to produce a consensus candidate from the North.


He added that they would contact former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the first aspirant to pick the party’s nomination form.

PDP spokesman Ologunagba, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, said chieftains seeking to fly the flag of the party have not broken any rule.

According to him, Atiku and Saraki were exercising their fundamental human rights, which guarantee their aspiration to leadership positions in the country.

inforesource:
He is a scapegoat. Believe me.