Former Governor of Jigawa State and one of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains in the country, Sule Lamido, has slammed
northern elders over the recent endorsement of two aspirants as the party’s
consensus presidential candidates.
Lamido stated this in a statement, which he personally
signed and issued on Saturday.
He was reacting to the outcome of a northern leaders’
meeting in Minna, Niger State, where former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and
Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed were shortlisted as northern consensus
candidates.
In a communique signed by former Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, the northern leaders said the
election of Saraki and Bala Mohammed was arrived at based on certain criteria
adopted in the assessment of the four aspirants who submitted themselves for
the exercise.
Reacting, however, Lamido said endorsement was a personal
opinion of those who issued the statement and not the position of the PDP
members in the north.
According to him, “The attention of key stakeholders of the
PDP in the Northern State is drawn to reports in the Media that some Northern
Elders have shortlisted two of our prominent and deserving aspirants as
consensus PDP presidential candidates.
“Having widely consulted party leaders across the 19
northern states and FCT, it is hereby stated to our teeming party members and
the general public that what is reported in the media is only the personal
opinion of those who issued the statement and not the position of the PDP
members in the north.
“Discussions are ongoing with all the aspirants in our party
with a view to having a Consensus if possible or at least working towards
having a smooth acrimony-free national convention.”
“The position of the Northern Elders is not only injurious
to the North but equally injurious to the northern aspirants!”
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