The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) internal issue has drawn more attention from Nigerians, according to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the PDP experienced a crisis when Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate, chose Ifeanyi Okowa, the governor of Delta State, as his running mate instead of Governor Nyesom Wike of River State.
The governor of Rivers, who finished second in the party’s presidential primaries, has declined to publicly support Atiku’s bid for the presidency.
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Senator Iyorchia Ayu, the PDP’s national chairman, has been called upon to resign by a number of high-ranking party members who are dissatisfied with the party’s leadership, joining Wike in this demand.
The PDP is in a serious crisis, according to APC spokesman Felix Morka, who acknowledged as much in an interview with Channels Television on Friday.
In order to divert Nigerians’ attention from its internal disputes, the PDP, according to Morka, is utilizing the controversy surrounding the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket put out for the 2023 elections.
According to an APC official, the PDP avoided power rotation while selecting its presidential candidate, while the APC selected a southerner.
He said: “I think we all need to pay a little attention to what is going on in the opposition side. That party – PDP – is crippled completely by their own internal crisis. That is where the attention should be.
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“They are the one who has shortchanged our idea of rotation and power balancing between the north and the south. They took their presidential candidate from the north. We took it to the south because our party believes in fairness.
“We have a president who is from the north of the country and we thought for good reasons – to balance up the need for peace, unity and inclusiveness in this country that we cede our presidency to the south.
“We have done that but the PDP did the exact opposite to go north. Those who do not want to actually face the truth would rather discuss whether is about the Muslim-Muslim ticket or other things to distract from the fundamental breach of their own constitution.
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“They are the only party that entrenched the principle of rotation in their constitution but in flagrant breach of that principle, they pushed the presidency to the north. It is up to Nigerians to decide whether the need for unity is sufficient to actually reject the call by that party to be voted into office come next year.”
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