The board of trustees (BoT) of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is preparing to meet with all presidential
aspirants of the party to discuss the possibility of picking a consensus
candidate for 2019.
Walid jibrin, chairman of the
BoT, disclosed this at a news conference in Kaduna on Wednesday.
Jibrin said if the aspirants do
not agree on a consensus candidate, the
party will be left with no choice than to conduct a primary.
He promised that the board would
do its best to carry out its function by “remaining the conscience of the
party”.
“Efforts are on ground by BoT to
bring all the PDP presidential aspirants together to consider how best they
should accept one of them to stand, realising that despite their number, only
one person will emerge as a candidate during the primaries and also only one
person will emerge as the president of Nigeria,” he said.
“We have men and women of honour in
the BoT that will never sell their conscience, and ensure that the best will
come out of the presidential aspirant without fear and favour.
“I urge all organs of the party
to partner with BoT in this respect. I call on all members of PDP to remain
calm and resolute by remaining unshaken with the belief that PDP will take over
government at the federal and states with majority of our members in national
assembly and state assemblies.”
He, however, reiterated that if
the party could give room to more defectors, it “will continue to boost the ego
of the party”.
“While we do this, we will also
consider the role played by our old and hardworking existing members who
supported the party almost to the point of death,” he said.
“No decampee should be pushed away
for now. We shall apply conflict management resolution methodology to enable us
remain stronger.
“We must at all cost use
sacrifice. In the light of the above, PDP shall never condone campaign of
calumny against us by the APC as more of their members continue to decamp to
PDP.”
Former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar, Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa state, Ahmed Makarfi,
ex-chairman of the PDP, are among the presidential aspirants of the party.
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