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2023: PDP At Crossroads Over Zoning Of Presidency – Party Chieftain

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Feb 9, 2022.

…explained that his party is faced with two tough options – either to struggle to clinch power or embrace zoning to the detriment of winning…

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a former Aviation Minister and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osita Chidoka, says the main opposition party is in a dilemma over the zoning of presidency to any region.

Chidoka, who spoke during an interview on Channels Television, said he would personally want the PDP to field a southerner from the eastern part of the country as its candidate.

He however explained that his party is faced with two tough options – either to struggle to clinch power or embrace zoning to the detriment of winning the polls.

He said: “PDP is in a kind of dilemma. Do we struggle to win power first or continue our zoning as we have done or do we continue with the zoning even if that candidate may or may not win the election?

“First of all, the Igbo people will have to bring out a candidate that can convince Nigerians because Nigerians are not a party to this internal party zoning structures.”

In the event that both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the PDP field a south-easterner as their respective candidates, Chidoka explained that Nigerians would be left with the choice of voting the best candidate that will deliver the dividends of democracy to them.

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When asked if the PDP has lost hope of fielding an Igbo man for it to coast to victory, the former minister neither confirmed nor denied.

Rather, he said Nigerians have gotten to the stage whereby they will overlook their ethnic identities and consider the national interest first while voting for credible leaders at the polls.

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