Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state is the ideal presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party in the upcoming 2027 election, a chieftain of the party, Femi Babalola has said.
According to the PDP chieftain, Makinde has the capacity to clean up all the mess created by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, considering his achievements as the chief executive of the Pacesetters state.
Babalola spoke on the heels of the PDP recent decision to zone the 2027 presidency to the southern part of the country, the Nigerian Tribune reports. .
The magazine had earlier reported that the party at its 102 National Executive Council, NEC meeting in Abuja, the nation’s capital decided that a southerner flies its presidential ticket in line with its plan to ensure that the country’s next president comes from the region.
The PDP chieftain stressed that the Oyo state helmsman can stand head to head with other presidential aspirants, considering the vast experience he has acquired as two-time governor of the state.
He said what the country needs at this time is a presidential candidates with a fresh breath of ideas, after the ruling APC has mismanage the country, as a result of “failed and empty promises”
“If the party felt that the game was to present a southern candidate, it’s good for us, I’m in full support of it, let it be south versus south, we have the strength in the North,” Babalola said.
In a communique he read after the party’s NEC meeting, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, disclosed that the 2027 presidential ticket has been zoned to the south, while the North has retained the position of the National Chairman.
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