High Chief Raymond Dokpesi an ally of the PDP presidential
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that the party constitution allows
Northern Nigeria to present a presidential candidate up to 2027.
Dokpesi who spoke during Shekarau’s defection party on
Tuesday, accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of jettisoning the chances
of the South to continue where Late YarAdua stopped.
He said, “in 2015 when President Goodluck Jonathan was
angling to contest elections, I personally wrote to him and asked him not to do
so, to either go on vacation after completing YarAdua’s tenure or join the
incoming government, so he can come back and complete his full eight years”.
“But he was advised otherwise and adhered to that and that
is what led to the crises we have today and what also allowed the North to
continue producing the President till 2027.”
Raymond Dokpesi said, ” I have been a member of the PDP from
inception, I read and I know every stage of the party activities. Out of the 16
years the PDP rule, the North served only two years, that was why I opposed
Jonathan in 2015 when he was running for elections, I told him he should allow
the North complete their eight years then he will have his full eight years
after resting for a while”.
So it is not true that it is the turns of the South in PDP,
what Jonathan did was what brought about the crises which some people are
pushing up.”
He said the truth of the matter is that some of the social
media handlers are worried that it is not possible for the North to have the
Chairman of the Party, Presidential Candidate and Board of Trustees Chairman
and maybe the Campaign DG also from the North.
“Now it is because we are not situating issues at their
proper perspective, the truth of the matter is that the PDP has a constitution
and it has said that people are elected and rotated on eight years basis.”
“So in 2019 that was when the PDP started its rotations,
From that year up to 2027, the North is supposed to still present the President
under PDP so there is nothing wrong in Atiku Abubakar’s candidacy and we are
not in 2027 yet we are still in 2023.”
“We lost the 2015 elections because we didn’t adhere to the
rotational Presidency and since then what has changed? nothing.”
On Ibrahim Shekarau’s defections to the PDP, Dokpesi claimed
the former APC man was not an aristocrat but a down-to-earth person with the
talakawas in his mind.
He said Shekarau believes in the educational,
infrastructural and social wellbeing of the masses.
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