National Chairman of the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP Uche Secondus has said that tha party has not decided on which Geopolitical zone will run for the presidency in 2023.
Briefing newsmen yesterday in Abuja on the activities of the party’s leadership in the last three years, Secondus explained that a committee had been set up in that respect.
According to him, the panel, led by Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, has been mandated to investigate why the party lost the 2019 election and make recommendations.
Uche Secondus Said:
“I know you (media) are interested in zoning, but our party has a clear method of doing things. After the general election, we set up a panel to appraise our performance and make necessary recommendations.
“The Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Bala Mohammed, is heading the committee, and they are still working. We must study our last outing before looking ahead. We can’t be talking of zoning when we have not appraised how we fared in the last election.”
Still on the Presidency, Mr. Secondus was not definitive on who its presidential candidate will be even though a party primary is required before a candidate emerges, but asked if former President Goodluck Jonathan will be a likely contestant, following the clamour for Igbo presidency, Secondus stated:
“I believe that whoever that is interested in 2023, including the former President, can run because the PDP is a party for all.”
“I stand by my position that the Governor Mohammed-led committee is still working. They are coming out with a report on why we lost and by the time they finish, we will make a decision that would not just be for the National Working Committee (NWC), but for the entire party.”
“the state of the nation today is such that politics or anything concerning 2023 should take the backstage.”
“Nigeria is in a comatose state today, and that should be our concern now.”
Secondus lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari reneged on his promise to address the National Assembly yesterday on pervasive insecurity.
“This back and front from the President on the vital issue as security that is overwhelming our nation underscores our position as an opposition party that nobody is in charge, and that this is a broken government,”
“Disregarding the nation’s parliament is disregarding Nigerian people because they are representatives of the people. The truth which is worrisome is that the President either does not know what is happening or does know what to do, otherwise he should not be afraid to face the people.”
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