2023: Trouble in PDP Over Presidential Ticket

There is anxiety among Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members over the zoning of the 2023 presidential ticket as organs of the party began a series of meetings last night.

Tension heightened as key leaders and governors started arriving in Abuja yesterday.

Questions were being asked over which zone – North or South – would win the battle to get the party’s ticket.

The multiple meetings of leaders and elders started with that of the National Caucus billed for last night to harmonies its position on the agenda for the National Executive Committee meeting where decisions on where to zone the presidential ticket will be taken.

National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu chairs the National Caucus.

Members include serving/former presidents, serving/former vice presidents, serving/former Senate presidents and serving/former deputy Senate presidents.

Serving PDP governors, serving principal officers in the two chambers of the National Assembly, chairman and secretary of the BoT are also members.

Similarly, former principal officers of the National Assembly, former national chairmen and former chairmen of the Board of Trustees (BoT), and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) are also included in the membership.

Today, the BoT will hold two separate meetings at 10 am and 12 pm ahead of the meeting of the NEC slated for 2pm.

Party sources hinted at a division over zoning of the presidential ticket.

While some of the stakeholders canvass zoning, others insist on throwing the contest opens to all interested aspirants.

A source confided in our correspondent yesterday that the division cuts across the various layers of the party’s critical organs.