Injustice in PDP made me support Tinubu – Nnamani

A former Enugu state governor, Chimaroke Nnamani, said on Sunday that he had decided to support All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu because the People’s Democratic Party had violated its constitution by denying the south the right to elect the next president. to produce.

The former governor stated that the PDP’s constitution specified that key political offices would be rotated between the north and south to ensure justice, fairness and fairness.

In a statement released to journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Nnamani said: “Conscious of the need to share and rotate important political offices among the diverse people of our country, the PDP Constitution clearly stated that it will at all times adhere to the policy of rotation and zoning of the party and public election offices in accordance with the principles of fairness, justice and fairness.

“Even when PDP National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu made a firm commitment to resign if a northerner emerged as the presidential candidate for the 2023 election, the leadership jettisoned the constitutional provision and put logic on its head. cup.”

He recalled that in 2019, the PDP allowed the North to contest the primaries for president in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in which Atiku Abubakar captured the ticket and contested the election.

He added: “The PDP was expected to similarly allow the South to compete for the plum position in 2023, but the party would open the contest for both the Northern and Southern aspirants in its decision. ”

He added that “the PDP’s action amounted to injustice and a lack of fairness, claiming that it is morally wrong to leave power in the north after President Muhammadu Buhari’s term in office in 2023.”