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Presidency: 2023 is our turn -N’Central PDP stakeholders

Former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abubakar Kawu Baraje yesterday declared that “it is the turn of the North Central” to produce the next president, adding that Senator Bukola Saraki stands a better chance.

 

 

He said when he led a team of PDP advocates to consult on behalf of former Senate president, Bukola Saraki, for the presidency come 2023 at the PDP secretariat in Minna, Niger State; that all the zone needs is to adopt a consensus candidate.

 

According to him, “for the  past years we have worked for other zones, we have assumed positions as national chairman of the PDP severally and produced presidents, but this time around whether the national chairman is from our zone, the North Central will still produce the next president.”

 

He averred that the former Senate President has the  character, capacity and com-petency required for the job, adding, “he will not be like those who are over 70 years old and travelling abroad for months not minding what happens to the people and the nation.

 

“Even if the North Central produces the next party chairman, the zone will still vie for the presidency in 2023.”

 

Also, former Governor of Kwara State, Sha’aba Lafiaji said: “If the zone must succeed in actualising our aim, then, we need to adopt a consensus candidate. “Enough of pushing the position of national chairman position to us.

 

This time around we must be firm on a presidential aspirant from the zone. We all need to adopt a consensus candidate from the zone and that candidate is Bukola Saraki.”

 

In his response, chairman of the PDP in Niger State, Tanko Beji, a lawyer, said as a state, the party is committed to ensuring victory in all positions by 2023. The state party, however, unanimously chorused that “we stand behind a North Central candidate for the 2023 president.”

Others in the Saraki for President Advocacy Group include former Nasarawa State PDP chairman, Yunana K. Iliya; former governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada; Senator Zaynab Kure, wife of former Niger State governor (late Engr. Abdulkadir Kure) and Senator Abdulraman Badamasi (Kogi).

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