Lere Olayinka, spokesperson to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has stated that if the party had listened to his principal and other aggrieved members before the 2023 election, it would not be in its current crisis.
He argued that zoning the 2027 presidential ticket to the south would change nothing because the party failed to do the right thing three years ago.
Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television on Wednesday, Olayinka lamented that the PDP now faces a more brutal political reality ahead of the 2027 elections.
He said, “It is too late because we had the chance of doing the right thing three years ago, that we did not do.
“For instance, if we had agreed with him (Wike), probably the party wouldn’t be where it is today. Head is off already, we are crying. What we should have done three years ago, we did not do.”
He recalled that in 2022, Wike and his G-5 allies had demanded that the PDP zone its ticket to the South, arguing that fairness required a southern candidate since then-President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner, was completing his tenure.
“The second thing that is too late is that you’re now saying the president should come from the South, but the issue is that another party that is in power has its candidate too from the same South, and that candidate would have spent four years in office and will have four years more to spend,” he said.
“Now you’re presenting your (Southern) candidate to the North, will that North agree with a candidate that will be starting afresh? A candidate that would probably want to go for second term if he wins in 2031? Or a candidate that only has four years to spend?” he added.
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