An advocacy group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) named PDP 100 Percent, has urged former vice president, Atiku Abubukar and other northern politicians to support the emergence of a southern presidential candidate in 2027 in the interest of equity and fairness.
The national coordinator of the group, Dennis Shima, said, ‘’At this critical turning point in our democratic history, it is imperative to call on all and sundry within PDP to support a southern presidential candidate to complete eight years in the presidency after eight years of former president Buhari from 2015 to 2023.”
Shima added that southern Nigeria has credible and young presidential materials that can match the incumbent President Bola Tinubu rather than recycling the old brigade who have dominated the political scene.
He said those agitating for a northern presidential candidate of the PDP are protagonists of Atiku who have forgotten how magnanimous PDP has been to him after he and others in the North orchestrated defeat of the PDP in 2015.
He recalled that PDP would have been 27 years in the presidency of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic if not for activities of the New-PDP, a fractional PDP group which joined forces against the PDP presidential candidate in 2015.
