Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos 

Barring any changes, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) may approve the report of the Governor Bala Mohammed Committee which advocated throwing open of its presidential to all zones in the country.

The committee, set up by the PDP to review the 2019 general elections had  recommended  that merit should be considered in choosing the next presidential candidate of the partyrather than zoning.

The Committee, in its recommendation submitted to the party leadership had  said, “in line with certain unwritten conventions of the nation’s history, many people think that, for fairness and equity, the North East and South East geo-political zones that have had the shortest stints at the Presidency, should be given special consideration, in choosing the presidential flagbearer of the party, for the 2023 elections".

"While we admit that this is a strong argument, we should not lose sight of the fact that Nigeria is endowed with many capable and very experienced leaders in every part of the country. Moreover, the exigencies of the moment demand that nothing should be compromised in choosing the leader, with the attributes to disentangle the country from the present quagmire. Therefore, we think that every Nigerian, from every part of the country, should be given the opportunity to choose the best candidate, through a credible primary election; as a way of institutionalising a merit-based leadership recruitment process, for the country.”

Speaking with Daily In­dependent, a former Minister and member of the PDP's Board of Trustees (BoT) said there is grave danger if the party decides to zone its national chairmanship position to the North. 

He argued that a northern national chairman can use his position to influence the emergence of a northern presidential candidate, thereby leaving the South with nothing. 

"You are saying the Presidency is not zoned, it is thrown open and can be contested for at the convention, what if a northern national chairman uses his position to influence the emergence of a presidential candidate from the North?".

" If that happens, the North will now get the Presidential candidate and national chairmanship position. They will then ask the national chairman to resign and then move it to the South. That is the danger that a lot of people are not seeing". 

"If the Northerners are so desperate to field a northern candidate, they can use that position to get the presidential candidate to emerge from the North. I believe what they want is to throw the presidential ticket open and not zone it to any region, even though that has not been ratified by NEC. I believe next week the NEC meeting will be called to ratify it". 

On the belief that some Southern governors have ditched former Osun state governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola and are now rooting for a northerner as national chairman, he said "Are you sure somebody in the North is not controlling them to sabotage themselves? Because a strong northern chairman can ensure that the presidential candidate emerges from the North. If that happens, then we are in trouble".

https://independent.ng/pdp-nec-may-approve-throwing-presidential-ticket-open-next-week/

Throwing it open still better than Throwing it in the gutter with their initial plans

brainpulse:
Failed party of vultures

Gbamsolutely!!!

A party of looters and criminals that couldn't construct their National HEADQUARTERS for 16 years want to build a country!
Awon werey 100%.

Going on memory lane for those that suffer from collective amnesia around, AKA Children of hate, frustrations and perdition..
The 12-storey structure projected to serve as the national secretariat of the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is tottering, being a borrowed vision that was not contemplated by the founding fathers of the party.
 
 After organising fundraising on two occasions and gathering billions of naira, the office could not complete that single project.

As such, five years after work on the site was stopped in 2014, the new helmsmen in PDP are crying for funds to see to the completion of the building. However, the cry for more funds has raised fresh concerns over the status and whereabouts of the N21billion raised during a special fundraising dinner organised by the party on December 2014.  
  
Incumbent PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, recently lamented that there was not enough money to complete the new national secretariat, which cost has was varied upwards from N11.5bilion to N16billion.
    
The then governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, an architect, was commissioned to put up the project design. And in a bid to get the structure off the drawing board, PDP organised fundraising on November 14, 2008, targeting N10b out of which it raked in N6b. The dinner was chaired by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and the highest donation came from Mr. Femi Otedola, while the richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, announced a donation of N3b worth of cement.

UP TILL NOW, Nothing to show for it.
They even sold the cement Dangote gave them and looted the money!

This dead and looting party doing all they can trying to stay relevant.
Awon werey 100%!!



A party of looters and criminals that couldn't construct their national headquarters for 16 years want to build a country!
Awon werey 100%.

Perennial losers and thieves.
Party of confusion, looting and corrupt souls in disarray..

Truth is not bitter, just that people are bitter to the truth........

PDP in Nigeria again?!
God forbid bad thing
we rather vote for FRESH Party!!

We Rise.

uba1991:
God bless you guys.

Amen.
Chief Uba,
God bless you and yours too.
A better Nigeria all around is all we want.

If the truth want to kill some people, let them die!

PDP, APC...They're all the same FOOLS!

They still no Wan leave PDP ticket for South.

Cc

Good !


Pls make una vote person with competence ..

Let's remove tribe or ethnicity ...

Na beg I dey beg

All I’m seeing in the coming election is blood sheds and others . May God protect all the patriot citizen . Nigerian has sunk long time ago

All because of Atiku's dollars?

Way to go

If the both biggest party zones to the south, it amaze you how God has seriously left one of them

Confused set of elders....head or tail, Osibanjo is our next President .

That's a diplomatic move. However, if they make the mistake of picking a northerner as the party flag bearer, that's the total end for the party

This party pdp is not a good oposition party . They can't even organiz their self

They will. And they will field Atiku

PDP just dey do anyhow

so it will take PDP years to announce a leader to contest ba...

Pls let my people know so they can decide if we will have to consider other party...

APC should Goan rest

At the end, Atiku will still have the day.

North really loves power

Over to PDP slaves. Over to Abobakus. Slave must serve his master till Biafra or death

Party of IPoB. Party of terrorist. Slaves must serve his master till eternity

@seunmg I no tell you? Looks like your Tinubu won't be able to run away from that battle after all!! That is if at all he picks up the APC ticket

Useless people

PDP don't have candidate, simple

B

PDP is dead in the EAST

Lol

Give Obi this ticket already.None of the northern politician(atiku, tambuwal) can lace his shoes in terms of achievements.And its only fair honestly.

Can politicians step back and field competent people when necessary? Most of these politicians are failed politicians or leaders with no credibility or performance record yet they want to be recycled.

In the last convention both the national chairman and presidency posts were zoned but now,chairmanship would be zoned while the post of presidency would be thrown open.Is this not the start of irrationality?When they(concerned PDP members )knew that zoning chairmanship to North would not mean zoning presidency to the South,why then was zoning adopted at all this time around?

eguarojeona:
Give Obi this ticket already.None of the northern politician(atiku, tambuwal) can lace his shoes in terms of achievements.And its only fair honestly.

You means Obi Cubana