A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senate Minority Leader, Senator Abba Moro has said that choosing Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate in the 2023 general election was a mistake.
He recently described the decision as an error that really weakened PDP’s chances of success.
Speaking during Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, Abba Moro revealed that the PDP has taken the right step by zoning its 2027 presidential ticket to the South.
According to him, the decision to zone the 2027 presidential ticket to the South was a unanimous consensus, and every party leader is fully in support of the thoughtful move.
He stated that throwing the zoning arrangement open in 2022 was a decision that backfired massively.
“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,” he said.
He further described the PDP’s 2023 defeat as a huge setback, stressing that the party deeply regretted the choice it made.
Moro concluded by saying that 2027 would be a different case because the party is more united than ever.
“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 added.
