After the successful conduct of its national convention, governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have unanimously agreed to throw the presidential ticket of the party open.
This will allow intending aspirants from both the North and Southern parts of the country to participate in the presidential primary slated for next year.
There was a sharp division among PDP governors on the issue of zoning of the ticket. While PDP governors from the Southern part of the country alongside their All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts under the aegis of the Southern Governors’ Forum insisted that the presidency must shift to the South in 2023, the PDP and APC governors in the Northern Governors’ Forum rejected it, saying the position of their Southern counterparts negates the position of the constitution.
Independent