Immediate past Director-General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has raised alarm over the possibility of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winning the 2023 presidential election.
In a statement on Thursday, Lukman said the chances of the PDP presenting a Northern presidential candidate is a big challenge to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023.
The APC chieftain stated that the issue of zoning will affect the emergence of a quality leader in the APC and PDP, saying that a new political group will open the political spaces in both political parties.
He said: “The potential that PDP will produce a northern candidate presents a very strong challenge to the APC, which will affect the emergence of a ‘quality leader’ as the presidential candidate of APC.
“Therefore, the new political value potentially being created by a group such as the ‘association’ is the possibility of opening the political spaces in the country, including within the current big parties (APC and PDP) to produce higher-quality leaders that what would have ordinarily been the case in 2023,” he said.
“It will require some superior organising to produce such a higher quality desired different outcome, which is why such an initiative requires the support of all patriotic Nigerians. The other dynamic is also the question of providing a level playing field for candidates from all parts of the country.
“There are many leaders across the country and in both PDP and APC who could have qualified to emerge as candidates with all the ‘quality leadership’ credentials being envisioned with reference to any leadership qualification.”
