The Delta State Governor and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that Southern leaders failed to agree on the zone to produce the president in 2023.
Okowa stated this while featuring on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television on Thursday.
“When we were talking about the issues of presidency, if the PANDEF – it is not just about PANDEF, or South-West’s Afenifere, or the Middle Belt or the Ohanaeze (in the South-East) alone; in their collective voice, if they had insisted that ‘the presidency, we want it this time and it must be from the South-East’…a good request. But the real truth is they were just asking for a southern presidency without trying to situate it where ordinarily it should be,” he stated.
He further stated the decision of the All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to pick a political associate from Katsina State, Kaburi Masari, as an interim running mate only showed that the ruling party is not organised.