Sule Lamido
The possility of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) zoning it’s presidential slot to the South is remote.
Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State and chieftain in the main opposition party, said this insisting that it was not possible for the party to zone its presidential ticket to the south in the coming 2023 election.
Lamido stated this in his interview with BBC Hausa service today, Tuesday, October 5, 2021, pointing out that it would not be possible because of the personal interest of few individuals.
This followed the decision of the PDP Zonal Committee, chaired by Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to position the office of the PDP National Chairman to North.
The decision prompted many speculations that the decision was meant to zone the presidential ticket to the South.
Although the committee said the zoning of the office of President and Vice President was not part of its mandate, reacting to the development, Lamido said it might not be a problem if the decision was meant to revive the acceptability and popularity of the party in the Borthern part of the country
Lamido said but if the decision was meant to zone the 2023 presidential candidate to the Southern part of the country that would not be acceptable.
Said Lamido: “What brings this issue is because the Southern PDP and APC governors agreed that president must comes from the Southern part of the country.
“There is no compulsion in politics; everybody has equal rights and if you said you want your own, so everybody has his own as well.
“Therefore, unity and progress of the country is the most important aspect, not any part of the country.
“This happened 20 years back when PDP picked Obasanjo and prevented any candidate from North but it was done not by force is because it’s the solution to the country’s situation and for the future, progress and peaceful coexistence of the whole country”.
