The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has commenced profiling of its 2019 presidential aspirants in order to
have the best candidate at the party's primaries yet to be scheduled.
The party is making efforts to
settle for a formidable, dogged and credible party chieftain who has the clout
and acceptability to face the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the
next general polls.
Speaking on Tuesday, while
receiving members of the PDP Ward to Ward group in Abuja, the party's Board of
Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin said the search was extended to
those who left the party in the past.
Senator Jibrin who described the
return of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to the PDP as a good omen also
called on former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso,
Senate President Bukola Saraki and many
others who left the party to return.
The BoT called on party
supporters across the country to play key roles towards ensuring that only a
credible stalwart was fielded as the party's presidential candidate.
“All of us as a party agreed that
the President of Nigeria should come from the North. I enjoin you to support
the North to bring and give you a very capable President, not a never-do-well
President but a good, qualitative President.
“We are all doing what we can in
the North with all the leaders to identify who is the best candidate to rule
this country, the best person that will take away power from the ruling party.
Because 2019 is our own. 2019 is for the PDP.
“The return of Atiku to this
party, whether we like it or not, is a good omen for the party. By boldly
coming back to his home, it is a good omen.
“We are therefore calling on the
Senate President Bukola Saraki, Kwankwaso and all our former legislators who
left this party to come back quickly. When they come back, then we shall
together take a look at the issue of leadership. The issue of who wants to
become the President of Nigeria will now depend on all of us. We all will
decide who will be the President of Nigeria," Senator Jibrin said.
Chairperson of the PDP Ward to
Ward, Hon. Ada Fredrick also assured
that the group would rely on the BoT at all time in its bid to mobilize
Nigerians of all walks of life to return to the PDP in order to reclaim power
in 2019.
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