Presidency 2023: APC lays ambush on PDP, shifts national convention to June 6  

The  ruling  All Progressives Congress may be laying ambush on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over  election of the presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. The party, accordingly, took advantage of the INEC extension of party primaries by six days to shifts its presidential primary election to June 6, three days to the new deadline of June 9. The APC had earlier scheduled its special convention for presidential primary for May 29.

APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) extended the deadline for party primaries, declared: “following the Independent National Electoral Commission’s extension of deadline for the submission of list of candidates by political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) hereby postpones its Special Convention for Presidential Primary from Sunday, 29th-Monday, 30th of May, 2020, to Monday, 6th-Wednesday, 8th of June, 2022.”

INEC extended the deadline for political parties to conduct their primaries by six days at a meeting with stakeholders of political parties on Friday evening. The initial deadline was June 3.

Meanwhile, the PDP is going ahead with its presidential primary at the party’s national convention in Abuja on Saturday, May 28.

There were earlier reports that the APC has been slowing down their nomination processes row arch where the PDP will present its presidential candidate for the 2023 elections. This has placed the party on the hanger in deciding the issue of zoning of the presidential ticket.

Party sources had revealed that if the PDP elects a northern presidential candidate for 2023, the APC will also sponsor a candidate from the north in the providential  election. thus, the waiting game places greater burden on the ruling APC.