WITH a few weeks to its presidential convention, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is faced with adopting a seamless process that will produce a candidate for 2023 presidential election from an array of contestants from the North and the South.
\nALL key stakeholders in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are laterally on the edge. The leaders are apparently at a crossroads, with rising tension and suspense over the road to travel in the choice of standard-bearer of the party in the 2023 presidential election. Having been unable to categorically zone the ticket to either the South or the North, the party has thrown itself into a quagmire that is almost akin to a time bomb.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet, the countdown to May 28 and 29, when the PDP is expected to decide on who picks the ticket, is progressing steadily in the minds of party members across the length and breadth of the country. Which way to go? That is the big question on the lips of concerned party buffs and supporters.<\/p>\n
Options before PDP<\/strong> WITH a few weeks to its presidential convention, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is faced with adopting a seamless process that will produce a candidate for 2023 presidential election from an array of contestants from the North and the South. ALL key stakeholders in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are laterally on the edge….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nParties with intent to field candidates for the general election beginning with the presidential poll on February 25, 2023 are required to submit a list of their standard-bearers to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) latest on Jun 3, 2022. To get the list ready, three options are open to the parties. One is the conduct of direct primary; the second choice is to hold an indirect primary, while the third avenue is to adopt a consensus arrangement.\u00a0 But the parties currently have few hurdles in the march towards that stage of conducting primaries. For the PDP, it is increasingly becoming a tough battle to have a seamless process that will throw up its presidential hopeful. The choice of its candidate has become an acid test of its ability to manage crisis and resolve the attendant conflict of interest. And a few of its leaders have been at their wit\u2019s end on how the PDP could wriggle out of the current conundrum over who gets its presidential ticket;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"