2023 presidential aspirant, Doyin Okupe, on Friday, warned his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying if it choose the ‘perilous’ path of throwing the Presidential ticket at its primaries open to all zones, it “will finally have commenced an irreversible journey to perdition.”
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that according to Okupe, PDP must sustain zoning, if it wants to remain true to its creed of equity and fairness.
“Perfidy is the word. Dishonesty, injustice and insensitivity are the hallmarks of the current attitude of the PDP towards its own established policy of fairness and its celebrated mantra for equity and justice in the sharing of political offices through ZONING between the North and the south of the country. This zoning policy had guaranteed stability and entrenched sense of belonging and equity within our polity.
“The efficacy of the zoning principle is so self evident that even rival political parties have adopted it as a political tool to ensure fairness and justice among their own membership,” Okupe said via his known Twitter handle.
“For the avoidance of doubt, if muslim/Muslim or christian/ Christian Presidential tickets will not work in Nigeria, so will a northern President from any party, following an uninterrupted 8year rule by the current Predident, not work in 2023.
“But if the PDP, based on any presumptive consideration, choose the perilous and clearly unjust and inequitable path of throwing the Presidential ticket at its primaries open to all zones, then the PDP will finally through an unforced error have activated a self destruct political app and would have commenced an irreversible journey to Perdition.”
““Perfidy is the word. Dishonesty, injustice and insensitivity are the hallmarks of the current attitude of the PDP towards its own established policy of fairness and its celebrated mantra for equity and justice in the sharing of political offices through ZONING between the North and the south of the country. This zoning policy had guaranteed stability and entrenched sense of belonging and equity within our polity.
“The efficacy of the zoning principle is so self evident that even rival political parties have adopted it as a political tool to ensure fairness and justice among their own membership,” Okupe said via his known Twitter handle.”
I HAVE HARPED ON SAME NOTION SEVERALLY FOR WHOEVER CARES TO LISTEN. THIS SELF-DESTRUCT WAITING TO CONSUME A POLITICAL PARTY WITHOUT PRINCIPLE.
You do not need a soothsayer to predict what might befall the already perilous party. The signs are ominous and glaring.