A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dele Momodu, has advised all political parties against zoning their presidential ticket to the South ahead of the 2027 election.
Naijaonpoint reports that Momodu, while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Sunrise Daily’, a programme on Channels Television on Monday, stated that there is nothing in the Nigerian Constitution that stops a Northerner or Southerner from contesting.
According to him, the presidential zoning is a tool of blackmail designed to weaken opposition parties.
The veteran journalist emphasised that nobody will be able to defeat President Bola Tinubu if all political parties zone their presidential ticket to the South.
He said, “There is nothing in the Nigerian Constitution that stops anyone, whether you are a northerner or a southerner, from contesting.
“This so-called sentiment is a result and reward of blackmail from some people who want to deliberately keep all other parties down.
“Because they know that if you zone all other parties to the South in the presidency, none of them will be able to beat Asiwaju (President Bola Tinubu).”
Meanwhile, Dele Momodu has stated that he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because the party has reached a dead end.
Momodu lamented that the PDP has been hijacked by agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC), adding that the honourable thing for him to do in such a situation was to resign.
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television on Monday, he asserted that he is sure that the party would fail to rescue itself from the clutches of the ruling party.
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