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2023 Presidency: Who Flies PDP’s Flag?

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2023 Presidency

Although no official declaration has been made by Nigeria’s main opposition get together, the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) on the place it’s going to zone its presidential ticket for the 2023 presidential election to, political analysts imagine that it’s going to possible go to the North primarily based on the utterances and physique language of many stakeholders within the get together.

Many chieftains of the get together who’ve spoken in favour of zoning the ticket to the North have argued that it will likely be unfair for the South to provide the presidential candidate in 2023 given the truth that because the return of democratic governance to the nation in 1999, the South was in energy for 13 years out of the 16 years that PDP held sway because the ruling get together whereas the North held sway for simply three years.

A breakdown of PDP’s 16 years reign from 1999 to 2015 exhibits that former president Olusegun Obasanjo was in workplace for 2 phrases between 1999 to 2007. Upon the completion of his tenure, he handed over to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in Could 2007. Sadly, Yar’Adua who was battling ill-health even earlier than his election succumbed to loss of life on Could 5 2010. His deputy, Goodluck Jonathan took over and accomplished their tenure in 2011. Jonathan sought reelection which he gained and ruled until 2015 when he was defeated by the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

It seems the PDP members from the Southern a part of the nation are additionally in sync with this perception. It’s because no critical contender for the presidential ticket has been recognized to this point. Nonetheless, many chieftains of the get together are being tipped to interchange Uche Secondus because the nationwide chairman of the get together within the conference slated for October. Amongst outstanding PDP members being tipped as nationwide chairman are Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Chief Olabode George, Jimi Agbaje, Gboribiogha John Jonah , Liyel Imoke, Eyitayo Jegede and others.

The overall perception amongst get together leaders within the PDP is that if actually the PDP needs to win the 2023 presidential election, its ticket should go to the North and that can give it a bonus over the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In accordance with them, that was what gave the APC a bonus over the PDP within the 2015 presidential election. Additionally, the get together leaders imagine the final President produced by the PDP (Goodluck Jonathan) is from the South and he spent six years in workplace. General, they imagine that going by zoning association, the PDP ought to go to the North within the seek for the Presidential flagbearer.

Primarily based on this actuality, the possible presidential aspirants within the PDP for the 2023 presidential elections are simply 4. They’re Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President who was the PDP presidential flagbearer within the 2019 presidential election, Bukola Saraki, instant previous Senate President, Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto sate governor and Bala Mohammed, Bauchi State Governor.

Different possible presidential aspirants are Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state; Nyesom Wike of Rivers state; Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia state Governor; Ifeanyi Okowa,Delta state Governor, Peter Obi, former Anambra state governor who was Atiku’s operating mate within the 2019 presidential election.

Atiku Abubakar

On account of his age and the truth that he has been given the presidential ticket within the final basic elections, Atiku seems the weakest among the many 4 possible northern presidential aspirants. It’s because majority of the leaders within the PDP, particularly the youth have made their minds to not area Atiku once more. They imagine he has turn out to be a serial aspirant having contested consecutively since 2007. A lot of them additionally imagine he deserted the get together instantly after he misplaced the 2019 election and went in another country. He didn’t even attend the court docket classes in the course of the listening to of the election petitions filed on his lack of the election each on the tribunal and the appellate courts. They argued that if he had offered management, the get together won’t be within the disaster that it’s and wouldn’t have misplaced among the key members.

Additionally, Atiku doesn’t meet the necessities set by former Navy President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) in his current interview with Come up Tv which acquired commendation with politicians on all sides of the political divides.
IBB within the interview had mentioned people of their 60s needs to be the main focus of Nigerians as potential presidential candidates within the 2023 presidential election. This resonated effectively with many people in the country especially with the young Nigerians who’re bored with the older era and are craving for a brand new breed of leaders.

In IBB’s phrases “I’ve began visualising a superb Nigerian leader. That’s, an individual, who travels throughout the nation and has a buddy just about in every single place he travels to and he is aware of at the least one individual that he can talk with. That could be a individual, who could be very verse in economics and can also be a superb politician, who ought to be capable of discuss to Nigerians and so forth. I’ve seen one, or two or three of such individuals already in his 60s”.

Many analysts believed that regardless that he by no means talked about any title, IBB has dominated out Atiku as a possible presidential aspirant as he could be 76 years in 2023.

Bala Mohammed

Bala Mohammed who’s at the moment in his first time period had claimed that lots of his loyalists are mounting stress on him to contest for the presidency in 2023. Nonetheless, many stakeholders within the get together imagine he ought to go for second time period and work to strengthen the get together in his state and your entire North east zone, particularly given the truth that the APC is doing all it may possibly to reclaim again the state. It is usually believed that Bala Mohammed apart being fashionable in some elements of the North doesn’t have a nationwide attraction within the Southern a part of the nation.

Aminu Tambuwal

The Sokoto state governor contested the 2019 presidential primaries of the PDP the place he got here second after Atiku Abubakar, the eventual winner. Many believed that he stands a superb likelihood now given his place as chairman of the PDP Governors Discussion board. Apart the truth that Tambuwal has age on his aspect (57 years in 2023), analysts believed that he has community of pals throughout the nation given his place as a former Speaker of the Home of Representatives.

Bukola Saraki

Saraki, a former two-time governor of Kwara state and former Senate President has an enormous followership of youths as proven on his social media handles and lots of of them have been clamouring for him to run as president in 2023. He additionally has an enormous community of contacts in Nigeria and past, . His management of the eighth Nationwide Meeting between 2015 and 2019 remains to be a reference level amongst many Nigerians at the moment who see the present ninth Meeting as ‘rubber stamp’ lawmakers. Many Nigerians see him as a daring and brave chief who stood agency and served out his time period as Senate President when many had thought he gained’t last as long as six months within the place.

Saraki additionally has a robust political base particularly in his dwelling state of Kwara and throughout the nation. His place as a former Senate President and former chairman of the Nigerian Governors Discussion board (NGF) additionally gave him an edge as lots of his colleagues, each former and serving nonetheless maintain him in excessive esteem throughout the nation .

One other benefit Saraki has is that he has no baggage hanging round his neck. The Supreme Courtroom in 2018 discharged and acquitted him of all felony fees introduced in opposition to him by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC). Many Nigerians, together with elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai had been indignant few days in the past when the anti-graft company invited him and later rotated to claimed he was detained, ostensibly to color a nasty picture of him. Yakassai bluntly mentioned the EFCC was focusing on him due to the 2023 presidential election.

In conclusion, political analysts imagine that the 2023 presidential ticket of the PDP could also be a straight battle between Tambuwal and Saraki, regardless that Atiku can nonetheless pull a magic identical to he did in 2018 presidential primaries of the PDP. In addition they argued that whether it is about geo-political issue and the core- North origin, Tambuwal is favoured as a result of he’s from North- West whereas Saraki is from North Central. Nonetheless, whether it is about competence, functionality, capability and braveness, the 4Cs, then Saraki may be the best man for the PDP and Nigeria in 2023.

Nigerians who’re disenchanted with the efficiency of the APC since coming to energy in 2015 see the PDP instead in 2023. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen if the PDP is prepared for the large duties forward given its present management disaster and the way finest it conducts it nationwide conference. Most significantly, the candidate it fields as its flagbearer for the presidential election would be the final decider in its quest to regain the ability it misplaced in 2015.