Among the major determinants of who gets the ticket of a political party, electability, competence, financial standing, integrity and loyalty, rank very high. Though not exhaustive, to the party faithful, the factor of loyalty is considered as paramount. There are many reasons for this: first, it is loyalty that determines fidelity with the party manifesto. Yes. Manifesto, not ideology.
If the circumstances of the PDP, since the party lost the 2015 presidential elections, to choose the party’s flagbearer for the 2023 presidential elections, the delegates at the primaries should be wise enough to place a huge premium on party loyalty.
This raises a number of pertinent questions: first, to the extent that some of these aspirants indeed caused the party’s loss of power and the subsequent sequestration of the PDP party faithful, would it be morally right to reward any of them with the party’s ticket? Second, if the loyal party chiefs who stayed back, despite threats, persecution and outright humiliation had also abandoned the PDP, would there have been a platform to now ride on? Third, if the loyal party members had not...
OfficialPDPNig PDP should not give Atiku their ticket, if he had remained in PDP and supported GEJ he would be campaigning for his second term as president now, but he left and still got the PDP ticket when he came back, and now he has arm-twisted PDP to dump zoning is he the owner of PDP?
Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: thecableng - 🏆 2. / 80 Read more »
Source: thecableng - 🏆 2. / 80 Read more »
Source: thecableng - 🏆 2. / 80 Read more »
Source: MobilePunch - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »
Source: LeadershipNGA - 🏆 4. / 77 Read more »
Source: LeadershipNGA - 🏆 4. / 77 Read more »