2023 PDP ABANDONS ZONING

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thrown its presidential ticket open for the 2023 election open.

This means the party has abandoned zoning, an issue that had been a major topic of discourse in recent times, with many southerners opining that the Presidency should be zoned to the South in 2023.

The decision was reached during a meeting on Tuesday of the 37-man committee set up by the party to decide the zone to get its presidential ticket for next year's election.

The committee headed by the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, was set up on March 17 to find an amicable solution to the issue of zoning.

The party had been divided between leaving its presidential ticket for aspirants from all regions of the country to contest or ceding it to the South as a mark of fairness considering that President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, who is a Northerner, would have completed two terms of four years each by May 2023.

The situation was further aggravated by the announcement made by the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, on February 22, 2022, that it had ceded its presidential ticket to the South.

This caused further divisions among PDP stakeholders, some of who believed that anything.

When contacted over the issue, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP Debo Ologunagba, disclosed that it was quite premature to know the decision of the committee as he was not a member.