Senate Minority Leader and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Abba Moro, has stated that the party made a costly mistake by presenting former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.
He said the PDP wanted to put its best candidate forward, hence the decision to jettison zoning arrangements and throw the party’s ticket open for the 2023 polls.
Moro, however, said the strategy backfired as Nigerians rejected the idea of a northerner returning to the presidency immediately after another northerner had just concluded an eight-year tenure.
Naija News reports the PDP chieftain made the submission on Tuesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He said, “In 2022, the PDP in an attempt to wrest power from the APC, had actually thrown open the zoning arrangement of the party and that we were going to put our best foot forward. Eventually, like it happened, that decision backfired because people resisted the intention to get a northern candidate to succeed a northern president and so it backfired and PDP for part of that reason lost the election.”
The lawmaker said that, based on the 2023 experience, the PDP has decided to swallow its pride and zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the South in compliance with what Nigerians want.
He said the PDP has since realized that fielding a northern candidate in 2023 was an error, and the party has chosen to correct its mistake with the 2027 polls.
“So this time around, we’ve been reconciling, reviewing the strategy and reviewing what happened and majority of us, virtually all of us, agreed that a mistake was made in 2023 fielding a northern candidate.
“This time around, in the spirit of unity, in the spirit of fairness and justice, PDP leaders decided to swallow their saliva and said, look, let’s take this thing to South, where majority of the people feel it should have been. As the election turned out, because Nigerian people spoke, definitely it was an error.
“We lost a very monumental election in a disastrous manner,” Moro explained.
Naija News reports that the submission of the lawmaker comes a few days after the PDP officially zoned its 2027 presidential ticket to the south.
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