In a new dimension to the race for the PDP chairmanship, a group, Oodua PDP Alliance, has drummed up support for Prince Uche Secondus from the South South and called on the South West to drop the bid for the party’s leadership.
In a statement signed by the leader of the group, who is also a leader of PDP in Osun State, Hakeem Ogunsola, the group affirmed that the South West had proved its unpreparedness for the party’s leadership.

It, therefore, affirmed that, “The leadership should go to the South South, the main base of the PDP.”
According to the statement, “We want to note that rebuilding the PDP and winning power back in 2019 demand a chairman with solid home base, deep experience and capacity to face the power of incumbency.
“We need Prince Secondus to lead this electoral and political battle to rescue Nigeria and change the fake change,” the statement noted.
While condemning the “discordant and rancorous competition” among South West chairmanship aspirants, the group said, “South West does not need party chairmanship. If anything, we should rally round Prince Secondus and seek better offer in arrangement of national offices.
“How can you be going for chairmanship when there are better bargains to strike? How can you hope to lead the party when your zone is not a stronghold of the PDP? How can you even be taken seriously when many of your aspirants carry heavy baggage? We don’t want party chairman in South West: let Secondus have it,” the group said.
The group, which claimed to have members across the six South West states, announced its resolve to mobilise the Yoruba axis of the PDP for Prince Secondus, describing the Rivers State politician as “tested, experienced and competent to lead the party.”