Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, a past presidential candidate on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform, asked the party leadership on Sunday to select a Southern candidate in the event that former Senate President Bukola Saraki wins the position of PDP National Chairman.
Senator Saraki is exceptionally qualified to head the party at “this crucial time and reconcile all the aggrieved members and groups within the party,” according to a statement from Anakwenze.
But he issued a warning, saying the party needed to take a lesson from the near-death experience of the PDP’s leadership crisis.
In his view, if Saraki, a Northerner, is elected National Chairman, the party’s next presidential candidate should be from the South in order to maintain balance and win back the trust of the party’s disgruntled members as well as that of the majority of Nigerians in the PDP as their own party.
He forewarned that it would be too devastating to repeat the error of disregarding the emotions and sentiments of Southern party members who felt left out and betrayed by the ousted Iyorchia Ayu leadership.
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