Why Northern PDP Chieftains Have No Moral Claim To PDP Ticket In 2023

Penultimate to the election of 2015, leaders of Peoples Democratic Social gathering from the north led agitation for energy shift to the area. The argument then was that it was immoral for President Goodluck Jonathan, as then was, to hunt reelection underneath the platform of the celebration having entered a pact not to take action.

Seeing that they could not cease President Jonathan from getting the nomination of the celebration, they activated plan B. A few 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 shaped merger, All Progressive Congress, to actualise their ambition for energy shift to north. Alhaji Abubakar and Governor Kwankwaso vied for the nomination of their new celebration however misplaced to Basic Muhammadu Buhari. Their comrades, which remained in PDP, internally labored towards PDP and Jonathan.

All of those northern politicians, alongside others, totally supported the marketing campaign of Basic Buhari, which culminated into his victory over President Jonathan, and thereby actualising powers shift to the north.

Somewhat than to help President Jonathan, who was restricted to solely 4 years in workplace (if reelected), they miscalculated by supporting Basic Muhammadu Buhari who they by no means knew had plans to hunt reelection in 2019. After they noticed the handwriting on the wall that President Buhari was to hunt reelection and was favored for the nomination, they returned to PDP to put declare to the Presidential ticket of the celebration. The identical PDP they abandoned and made to lose central energy in 2015.

Southern PDP Chieftains, out of their magnanimity and want for fairness and equity, wholly accepted these returnees and backed zoning of the 2019 Presidential ticket to northern a part of the nation according to fairness and equity. That course of threw up Alhaji Abubakar, who had left in 2014 however returned in 2018 because the candidate of the celebration, to problem President Buhari of APC.

As we strategy 2023, it might be unfair for the celebration to shortchange the south within the guise of appeasing these northern chieftains. I maintain two causes for this;

The primary is that President Buhari, who these northern PDP chieftains helped convey to energy, is a northerner. And it will not be truthful to the south for one more northerner to hunt to succeed him as after uninterrupted eight years in workplace in 2023. The ethical factor is for the celebration to look in direction of the south as an alternative.

Secondly, the southern PDP, and by extension southern Nigeria, was the most important loser within the lack of PDP and Jonathan in 2015. Extra so, for the truth that the 2015 loss was catalysed by the actions of those northern PDP chieftains, it might be unfair and quantity to double tragedy for the area to be made to surrender its alternative to appease the identical those that introduced concerning the tragedy.

Due to this fact, the PDP Zoning Committee underneath the management of His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, ought to as a matter of patriotism, equity and justice, do the needful by zoning the celebration’s Nationwide Chairmanship seat to the north and the Presidential ticket to the south.

Could I additionally state that the south, being the stronghold of the celebration, is succesful to galvanise help for a Presidential candidate from the south and ship victory to the celebration on the polls in 2023. Moreover, greater than 55% of the northern electorates are comfy with energy shift to the south in 2023, and are trying as much as PDP to make this occur.