Founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC) and Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, has faulted Bauchi State governor, Senator Bala Mohammed’s osition against the zoning of presidential ticket by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that the governor got it wrong on all fronts.
Okechukwu in a statement he signed Thursday in Abuja, noted that Governor Bala’s disposition shows the lack of dynamism in the political thinking of opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stressing that the opposition party has shown that it is incapable of upstaging APC, stressing that the unity and prosperity of Nigeria is not uppermost in the PDP calculations.
Bauchi State governor, a presidential hopeful in his opposition PDP had, stated when he paid a visit to former president Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta on Wednesday, that APC’s decision to zone the Presidency to the South is not a threat to the PDP, because his party’s strategy is to ensure on merit rather than ethnicity in deciding where its presidential ticket will go.
“The Bauchi State governor and PDP seems to forget that Nigerians are fair-minded and upholds justice and equity in their voting preferences. That was why the late Moshood Abiola of Social Democratic Party (SDP), defeated Alhaji Bashir Tofa in his Kano State home in 1993.
“In 2023, Nigerians are going to repeat that feat by acknowledging President Muhammadu Buhari and APC’s decision to do the right things for national unity peace and progress.
“To me, the doctrine of swap of offices between the north and the south is a masterstroke by Mr. President and good for APC and Nigerians in every material particular. It is not only a threat to our sister political party, the PDP, but also signals their imminent defeat. My friend governor’s reaction seems inspired by sense of defeatism and phobia for APC.”
He regretted that “after just seven years in opposition, PDP has retained its character of deception, duplicity, selfishness, promise and fail; otherwise how can a rational political party flagrantly and unscrupulously breach its constitution, which expressly ingrained zoning?”
