Wike To PDP: Zoning Presidency To South Is Right Decision

Following the decision of the PDP, on Monday, to zone the 2027 presidency to the South, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike says he has been vindicated.

According to Wike, the PDP has now done what it should have done during the 2023 election, saying he warned then that the decision of the party to do otherwise would make it lose the election. The party actually lost.

The minister’s remark was contained in a statement issued yesterday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka after the PDP made the decision to zone the 2027 presidency to South, and the position of the National Chairman to the North.

The party made its decision known in a communique issued on Monday by Debo Ologunagba, the party’s National Publicity Secretary at the  end of the party’s 102nd National Executive Council, NEC, held in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Wike said the PDP made a huge mistake by not listening to him in 2023, leading to the loss of the presidency to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Olayinka said: “Now, that the party has realised its mistake of not listening to Wike and the G-5 in 2022, and have chosen to do what they said, three years after, have they not been vindicated now?

“Recall that the FCT Minister and the G-5 had insisted that the presidential candidate of the PDP and its National Chairman must not remain in the same zone, insisting that since Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, from the North had emerged as the presidential candidate,  Senator Iyorchia Ayu, also from the North must resign to pave the way for a National Chairman from the South. Ayu, however, insisted on not resigning, with Atiku and his group backing him. Aftermath of this was the electoral misfortune the party suffered in 2023, followed by instability after the elections.

“But today, the NEC resolved that since the National Chairman of the party is zoned to the North, the PDP 2027 Presidential ticket be zoned to the South.

“Has PDP not come back to eat its own vomit?

“Sadly, they know the truth. Wike simply said, take the chairmanship to the South if you want to gain the presidency, but they said no, they must take the two, and the PDP lost!

“They have realised the mistake they made in 2022 and are correcting it in 2025.”