2023 Presidency: Zoning Will Work Against PDP – Bauchi Gov.

Some regions could feel marginalised if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) adopt zoning as its preferred method of choosing its presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi state, has said

Ekohotblog reports that Bala said this when he featured on Channels Television programme on Thursday.

Mohammed implore the party to create a fair and just platform for everyone to contest and encourage a merit-based process.

He noted that some regions might feel shortchanged if the presidency is zoned to the regions who have not had short at before.

Bala said the party lost the 2015 general election because of the internal crisis that plagued it.

“In 2015, we lost because we were so over-confident and there was too much internal wrangling. We lost in the north, even in the states where we had comparative advantage, because of the wrangling that particularly came out of our lack of internal democracy,” he said.

“And that is why today, we are saying that we have seen some zones that have not had a shot at the presidency for a long time — the south-east and the north-east. But we’re not yet going to say that the choice of the presidential flagbearer should be left exclusively to those zones. We’ll give a level-playing field because good things are from every part of the country, and we have good hands.

“We are just saying that if we zone completely to those places, there may be some feelings of exclusion. There will be some feelings of even shortchanging Nigerians in terms of presenting the best. The merit-based leadership recruitment that we want to do, is even at the same time, looking at history.”

He also alleged that his party lost the 2019 presidential election — which was won by President Muhammadu Buhari — as a result of “manipulation”

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