2023: Why I’m rooting for Tinubu, instead of Atiku – Nnamani 

The former governor of Enugu state, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, said he preferred the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu for 2023 because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) breached its constitution and denied the south the opportunity to run for the presidency.

Nnamani in a statement, Sunday, said the PDP constitution prescribes that key political offices be rotated between the North and the south to ensure equity, justice, and fairness.

The statement read in part: “Conscious of the need to share and rotate key political offices among the diverse people of our country, the PDP constitution clearly stated that it shall adhere at all times to the policy of the rotation and zoning of the party and public elective offices in pursuance of the principle of equity, justice, and fairness.

“Even when the PDP national Chairman Iyorchia Ayu made a firm commitment to step down should a Northerner emerge as Presidential candidate for the 2023 election, the leadership jettisoned the constitutional provision and turned the logic upside down.

“Recalled that the PDP in 2019 allowed the North to contest the primaries for the presidency in Port Harcourt, Rivers state in which Atiku Abubakar clinched the ticket and contested the election.

“It was expected that in 2023, the PDP in a corresponding manner allows the South to contest for the plum position, but the party in its decision open the contest for both the Northern and Southern aspirants.

“In a twist of events and political maneuvering, Atiku Abubakar got the ticket again.

“The outcome of the presidential primaries infuriated southern PDP faithful including the G.5 Governors who insist on respecting the North/ South rotation principle.

“Senator Nnamani said the action of the PDP amounted to injustice and lack of equity, maintaining that it is morally wrong to leave power in the north after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023.”

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