Former presidential spokesperson, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has said that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would lose the 2023 presidential election if the party fails to zone the presidential ticket to the Southern region of the country.

This is just as Okupe said if Muslim/Muslim or Christian/Christian presidential tickets will not work in Nigeria, so will a Northern presidential candidate not work for the PDP in 2023.

He said this in a statement titled, ‘PDP And The Road To Perdition’, a copy of which was made available to The Star on Friday.

Okupe, who has since declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of PDP, stated that the main opposition party would activate a “self destruct political app” if the party throws its presidential ticket open to all zones.

The statement read: “Perfidy is the word. Dishonesty, injustice and insensitivity are the hallmarks of the current attitude of the PDP towards its own established policy of fairness and its celebrated mantra for equity and justice in the sharing of political offices through zoning between the North and the South of the country.

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“This zoning policy had guaranteed stability and entrenched sense of belonging and equity within our polity.

“The efficacy of the zoning principle is so self evident that even rival political parties have adopted it as a political tool to ensure fairness and justice among their own membership.

“For the avoidance of doubt, if Muslim/Muslim or Christian/Christian presidential tickets will not work in Nigeria, so will a Northern President from any party, following an uninterrupted 8year rule by the current President, not work in 2023.

“But if the PDP, based on any presumptive consideration, choose the perilous and clearly unjust and inequitable path of throwing the Presidential ticket at its primaries open to all zones, then the PDP will finally through an unforced error have activated a self destruct political app and would have commenced an irreversible journey to perdition,” the 2023 presidential aspirant stated.

The Star