Following the alleged move by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to throw the party 2023 presidential ticket open and dumped zoning, the Southern Nigeria Ethnic Youth Leaders Assembly, Wednesday, threatened to terminate the existence of the party in the Southern region of the country.
President of the group, Felix Worlu, stated this in Enugu while addressing newsmen.
Represented by National Secretary, Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, Worlu accused the PDP ‘of turning the nights of Southeasterners into a mere daylight’.
He said PDP, by throwing its president ticket open, ‘has murdered justice, fairness and equity in the Nigeria nation.”
According to him, “Since PDP has murdered sleep from our eyes, therefore, they wouldn’t sleep again in Southern Nigeria until the party is finally buried.
He further threatened that PDP’s office/flag from ward to state levels will, for no reason whatsoever, be in the Southern Nigeria if they dare deny a Southeasterner the president ticket.
“Southern Nigeria Ethnic Youth Leaders Assembly shall apply every political means, both conventional and unconventional, to send a signal to the PDP from the day of primaries.”
He said a rotatory presidency was the only way to ensure sustainable peaceful coexistence in the country, reasoning that the position of National Chairman of the party was zoned to North of which a North central indigene, by name Iyochia Ayu is the present occupier.
In his words, “We insist on rotational presidency as it was done in the selection of the party national chairman as a condition to guarantee peace and unity in Nigeria.
“PDP, by their actions, want to destroy Nigeria which was painstakingly built by our founding fathers.”