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LAGOS – Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has accused Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti state of reading the constitution of the party upside down over the issue of power rotation between the North and South.

It will be recalled that Fayose in a tweet had faulted the emergence of the former vice-president as the PDP standard-bearer in the 2023 presidential election.

Fayose, an ally of Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike had tweeted “The PDP constitution provides for a rotational Presidency. Section 3(c) provides that the party shall pursue its aims and objectives by “adhering to the policy of the rotation & zoning of party & public elective offices in pursuance of the principle of equity, justice and fairness.

“The current President of Nigeria is a two-term Northern Presidency, thus implying that it must be a Southern Presidency in 2023 or nothing. Awa ‘South’ lo kan’ (It is the turn of the South). Nigerians should await details soon,” Fayose had tweeted.

However, in an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY INDEPENDENT, Atiku said Fayose is giving a wrong interpretation to the PDP constitution.

“The position we have found ourselves is not the first time PDP has found itself but there is a difference. If the elected president is from the North and the party chairman also happens to be from the North, automatically the party chairmanship reverts to the South”.

“So, Ayo Fayose is reading the provision of Section 3 of our constitution upside down. We have had it before; we have gone through this before. This is not the only time or first time. If today I am elected the president, automatically, Senator Ayu steps down.

“In fact, we had a meeting of the Northern zone, all the stakeholders on the issue of Senator Ayu and also the chairman of the Board of Trustees and we all agreed that if the president is elected from the North, both positions will also revert.

I think there is also a general misunderstanding. PDP is different from APC. Of course, APC copied some of the things we are doing because we are an older party but they now lump us together. They now said since Buhari is from the North, so even PDP itself must pick a candidate from the South. They have forgotten that in all the PDP istrations, the South has the highest number of years when the PDP was in office.

“So, I think we need to separate these two so that we can be very rational in our argument. But I think I will also like to blame the media for not trying to differentiate between these two issues.”

https://independent.ng/power-rotation-fayose-reading-pdps-constitution-upside-down-atiku/

Lol. Reading upside down means to read rubbish. Finally he blamed the media too for causing the confusion.

However does the fact that APC govt produced a Northern president have any effect on PDP's constitution?

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Obviously PDP unfairly made adjustments just to suit Atiku.

When the southerners allowed only candidates of Northern extraction to be fielded in the previous election, Atiku was a major beneficiary of the system, out of desperation, today he is singing a different song.

Atifku, Feb 25 is near

Atiku presidency is dead on arrival…when all your people are against you then how will you convince those that doesn’t like you.

It was as a complete K.O from Atiku.
I laughed very hard at that one.

There shall be shower of confusion in PDP soon…very soon. Obidient people are Endsars, Biafra and IPOB people that found love suddenly. They have hijacked OBI and LABOUR party. Only animals will vote them in the Zoo they have created in their mind.

I created a thread on buhari's endorsement of Tinubu and your super mods are scared to push it to front page . Seun isn't being fair at all here. Is it bad for buhari to endorse Tinubu? Isn't that the much sought after "presidential endorsement"?

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Fayose, no doubt he's Agbero.

lol

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Atiku is the greedy one in all these.

We all blame Tinubu for bringing in a Muslim Muslim ticket.

But we spare Atiku who wants a northerner to succeed another northerner leaving power in the North for 16 years.

Atiku is a hypocrite. Just telling lies and pretending to be a good person for sympathy votes.
Nigerian politicians are cultists

These re one d reasons I don’t think atiku is serious with his so called presidential ambition,he’s creating more enemies than friend

Greedy and selfish atiku

why not upside down... Atiku defected to APC in 2014 that Goodluck didnt honored zoning but because of his desperation and the quest of our southerner politicians that they cant be president but vice help Atiku to clinched PDP ticket. Fayose has alwys been known for the truth. i rather vote Tinubu than Atiku

Ok sir

KalakutaRepub:
Lol. Reading upside down means to read rubbish. Finally he blamed the media too for causing the confusion.

However does the fact that APC govt produced a Northern president have any effect on PDP's constitution?

He is saying that PDP did not produce the current president. The last PDP president was a southerner so the principle of rotation - if solely based on the PDP Constitution is not affected here.

According to Atiku anyway.

Pdp an Atiku dey mad, madder , maddest

Everybody dey rationalize.

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Atiku will never rule Nigeria

Politicians without repute

The truth is that, it's northern turn to produce president according to PDP constitution .