PDP NEEDS THE NORTH MUCH MORE THAN THE SOUTH - IHEDIOHA

By Emeka  Eze, Abuja.

Calls on the Church In Nigeria to be careful with meddling in the 2023 politics

Former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha has said that the main opposition party in Nigeria, the peoples democratic party needs votes from the North much more than the Southern part of the country, to win the 2023 presidential election. 

Ihedioha disclosed this in a release by  his Media adviser , Frank Nwaete after the PDP National Executive Council meeting on Thursday, the 8th of September. 

The former Governor maintained that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as the only Presidential candidate from the North is a pointer that the party needs the Zone much more than the South.

According to Ihedioha, the South has two Presidential candidates, Senator Ahmed Tinubu and Mr Peter Obi, noting that the continuous appeasement of the Southern Zone would not translate to election victory in 2023 ,he also commended the minor reshufflement of party leadership positions and thanked the leader's of the party for their magnanimity in ceding the chairman of the board of trustees to an Igbo man. 

"Ndigbo should see this as a clear proof of inclusiveness and accommodation in the scheme of things within the pdp and nationally " 

He also stated that, 

“ the 2023 Presidential election is clearly between the North and  the South. I don’t think it is wise to cede prominent positions of our party at this time to the South as the voting population numbers show that the north hold the key to pdp's victory. This is the truth and can be bitter but cannot be denied ". 

Ihedioha described those agitating that prominent positions in PDP be ceded to the South as political neophytes, advising that further accommodation of the South will end up weakening the party’s chances in the 2023 presidential elections.

He also called on the church leader's to trade with caution, with their perceived stand against a moslem candidate in the coming elections in order to avoid a backlash if a moslem wins the 2023 presidential election.

He also said the party has done well in it's reconciliation efforts and that anybody still complaining about the outcome of the party primaries, surely does not mean well for the party.