If Presidency Doesn’t Go To South, This Is Who To Blame – APC Chieftain, Okechukwu

Mr. Osita Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has asked Nigerians to hold the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) accountable if the presidency is not allocated to the South next year.

Okechukwu stated that the APC has been monitoring the PDP’s desire to feed on President Muhammadu Buhari’s twelve million vote bank with keen attention, noting that as a political party, the APC must fine-tune its strategy for the general elections in 2023.

He was responding to PANDEF, Ohanaeze, Middle Belt Forum, and Afenifere’s criticism of the APC’s plan to zone the presidency for 2023 to the South.

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Although it is unlikely that any candidate in the PDP could wash Buhari’s 12 million votes away, the Director-General (DG) of Voice of Nigeria (VON) believes that PDP’s eagerness to break into the President’s vote bank explains APC’s uncertainty.

During the recent Greater Nigeria Conference (GNC) in Abuja, the heads of regional socio-cultural groupings MBF, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, and PANDEF accused the APC of playing hanky-panky with the zoning of next year’s president to the South.

“Although one isn’t holding the brief for our distinguished national Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, one’s little understanding is that the leadership of our great party, is watching closely the desperation and antics of our elder sister political party, the PDP,” Okechukwu said during an interaction with journalists in Abuja, according to NAN.

“They want to capture power, by all means, indeed using Machiavellian tactics. We all know that PDP is famished, thirsty and desperate to win the Presidency in 2023. They loathe the loss of their slogan ‘Share the Money’ through their absence from power at the centre for seven going to eight years.

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“PDP,” he said, “is aware that President Buhari will not be on the ballot in 2023, therefore, for them, there is a void to fill. They must have reasoned that the Buhari’s Vote Bank would be up for grabs if they go north.

“To be frank, my take on the matter is that the swap option is still open because some of us from the South are still arguing that we have dormant votes, especially Igbo votes which will augment APC members’ votes from the north.

“However, if at the end of the day the zoning fails, we should blame PDP’s desperation, because we’ve been advocating a repeat of the Chiefs Obasanjo/Falae; Yaradua/Buhari and Buhari/Atiku models of 1999, 2007 and 2019 models.”

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