2027: PDP says more aspirants eyeing presidential ticket beyond Jonathan, Obi, Makinde

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disclosed that respective aspirants are softly positioning themselves for its 2027 statesmanlike ticket, beyond erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan, erstwhile Labour Party campaigner Peter Obi, and Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde.

PDP Deputy National Legal Adviser, Barrister Okechukwu Osuoha, told Vanguard successful Abuja connected Sunday that the enactment is presently engaged successful aggravated interior negotiations and consultations to find who volition yet look arsenic its flagbearer.

His comments came aft Senate Minority Leader Abba Moro listed Jonathan, Obi, and Makinde among those being considered. Moro besides noted that different qualified contenders from the South could inactive articulation the contention arsenic consultations deepen.

“Those names you mentioned are inactive speculations. Right now, what is paramount successful the enactment is negotiations and discussions, with radical trying to place who volition beryllium the astir credible candidate,” Osuoha said.

He stressed that portion nationalist attraction is connected the 3 figures, different imaginable aspirants crossed the South are already holding backstage talks with stakeholders to presumption themselves.

According to him, the party’s contiguous precedence is to clasp its nationalist normal to elite caller officers who volition steer the PDP for the adjacent 4 years. After the convention, absorption volition displacement to pruning down the fig of statesmanlike aspirants up of the primaries.

“It is during that play that we volition constrictive it down to those who are going to contest. The enactment volition privation to behaviour a escaped and just superior to support transparency and beryllium that erstwhile we speech astir democracy, we unrecorded by it,” helium said.

Osuoha explained that the PDP’s zoning statement volition usher the prime of candidate, noting that the presidency has been zoned to the South.

“Whoever volition contention indispensable travel from the South-West, South-East, oregon South-South,” helium stated, adding that determination equilibrium and enactment unity would beryllium important factors.

He emphasized that stabilizing the enactment up of the 2027 elections remains the apical priority: “The large constituent present is conscionable to clasp a nationalist normal and marque definite the enactment is unchangeable without rancour oregon crisis.”

The PDP is expected to intensify interior negotiations successful the coming weeks, with the result shaping its strategy for the 2027 wide elections.

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