PDP must be defeated now that Jonathan is there Candidate - North

Following its long time agitation for power to return to the region, in view of the rotational presidency agreement in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Northern Nigeria has resolved to dump PDP for All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2015 Presidential election.

The development is in reaction to the recent adoption of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP as the sole presidential candidate of the party in 2015, against the presidential ambition of other party members from the North.

Aside being aggrieved over the apparently dead zoning arrangement of the ruling party, the North had consistently considered President Jonathan incapable of ruling the country, using the security challenges bedevilling the country and northern region in particular as a case study.

Prominent northern leaders who spoke to our Correspondent stated that since the PDP has shut it doors against the North by adopting President Jonathan as its sole presidential candidate, the region has no alternative  but to ensure that the ruling party is defeated at the national level in the 2015 general elections.