By Bukola Kayode
Senate Minority Leader, Senator Abba Moro has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made a mistake by electing the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate for the 2023 general election.
Moro made the admission during his appearance on Channel TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday.
As part of its 102nd National Executive Committee meeting, the PDP resolved to zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the south while retaining the north for the position of National Chairman.
Moro said that party leaders reached a unanimous consensus that the 2027 presidential ticket should be allocated to the South.
He said: “In 2022, the PDP in an attempt to wrest power from the APC, had actually thrown open the zoning arrangement of the party and that we were going to put our best foot forward.
“Eventually, like it happened, that decision backfired because people resisted the intention to get a northern candidate to succeed a northern president, and so it backfired, and PDP, for part of that reason lost the election.
“So this time around, we’ve been reconciling, reviewing the strategy and reviewing what happened and majority of us, virtually all of us, agreed that a mistake was made in 2023 fielding a northern candidate.
“This time around, in the spirit of unity, in the spirit of fairness and justice, PDP leaders decided to swallow their saliva and said, look, let’s take this thing to South, where majority of the people feel it should have been. As the election turned out, because Nigerian people spoke, definitely fielding Atiku was an error.
“We lost a very monumental election in a disastrous manner,” he said.
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