The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it will only make its choice of candidate for the 2023 presidential election based on what is on ground politically.
The zonal leader of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih said this while insisting that the party’s 2023 Presidential candidate will be determined by the political terrain prior to the general polls.
According to him, the clamour by its members for a South South presidential endorsement showed their maturity as stakeholders but would be decided upon after members fully examined the country’s political terrain for a balance.
“Based on that the party then takes a position on the zone where the candidate will come from.
“No doubt there are lot of persons who feel strongly that there is need for the party to formally zone the presidency.
“First, it will reduce rancour among members. Secondly, it will give direction on what the party is looking at.
“Another thing is that as a matter of strategy, if the party settles for a zone, it means we will take advantage of the place the party has zoned it to.”
Orbih, in Benin while reacting to the increasing agitation by party loyalists from the zone for the party to zone the 2023 presidency to South-South, noted that the clamour was an indication that the party was a very organised one.
Orbih had emerged the National Deputy Vice Chairman, South-South of the party at the party’s zonal congress held in Port Harcourt a forth night ago.
He was returned unopposed at the congress held at the Obi Wali International Conference Centre with 960 votes out of the 964 votes cast by delegates from the six states in the zone.
