Nigeria: No Automatic Ticket for PDP Governors, Lawmakers, Says Ayitogo

14 October 2009
interview

Lagos — Alhaji Yusuf Ayitogo is the National Vice-Chairman, North-central Zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with George Okoh in Lafia, he speaks on the agitation among the current public office holders in the party to have automatic ticket for the 2011 general election among other issues

Recently, some governors decamped to your party, PDP. Is it logical and morally right for governors elected on the platform of a political party to decamp to another party midway into their tenure?

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