2023: It Is Wrong For PDP To Leave Presidential Ticket Open – Bode George

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been advised not to open up its presidential ticket for 2023 to all members.

Bode George, a South West party chieftain, said it was critical to guarantee that such a position be assigned to a specific region.

As efforts ramp up ahead of next year’s elections, the elder statesman made this known against the backdrop of the controversy surrounding the zoning of the PDP’s presidential ticket.

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Northern candidates believe they should be allowed to test their political appeal at the party’s primary, while their southern counterparts believe it is only their turn.

“It is obligatory, it is legal for the party to say yeah, this is zoned to the South or to the North; but it is explosive to leave it wide open,” George said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

George, a member of the PDP’s Board of Trustees, argued that the party’s ticket should be zoned to the South.

“Whatever was in the North after eight years must come to the South; whatever was in the South for the last eight years must move to the North,” he explained.

“As an engineer, I’m looking at a political equation; when they conceptualized this idea, nobody in their wildest dreams imagined there might be another political party capable of producing the president.”

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“When you now say you want to throw it (zoning) away, are you telling Nigerians that it is only in certain parts of the country that you have people who have the competence or the courage to rule Nigeria? How can there be peace?”

“Are you saying we don’t have anybody in the southern part? What we are telling people [is that] we have no right as a party to tell any individual [that] you cannot contest, because it will be illegal.”

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