2023 Polls: Consensus Candidate In PDP Our Target ― BoT Chairman

• Saraki vows to end insecurity

BY AHMED TUKUR, LAFIA – The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will produce a consensus presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections amid ongoing countrywide engagements by some aspirants seeking delegates’ votes at the forthcoming party’s primaries.

Board of Trustee (BoT) Chairman, Alhaji Walid Jubril said painstaking efforts are being made and measures put in place to ensure the party picks its presidential flag bearer without any rancour and bad blood among all the contestants.

Alhaji Jubril, who made the submission while responding to journalists’ questions at the PDP State secretariat in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital on Tuesday, said no effort would be spared in stakeholders’ resolve to produce a consensus candidate.

According to the BoT, his mission in the state was to access presidential aspirants who have visited the state so far as part of measures aimed at picking a proper and fit candidate on a consensus basis.

He said; “The NEC has made it known earlier that there will be no zoning and no consensus. But right now there is a loophole, therefore we need to review that earlier decision and come up with a consensus candidature.

“We have agreed to sit together to review that very seriously and come up with a suitable candidate to lead our party in the contest.

“We are not stopping any aspirant from contesting but we have to resolve to consensus. All the aspirants from the South-East, South-West, and the north are working together to produce a consensus.”

In a related development, one of the PDP’s presidential aspirants and former Senate President, Senator Saraki has vowed to end insecurity and to block all economic leakages that has thrown the country into a serious mess.

Saraki, who was in the North Central State to engage the delegates ahead of the party primaries, said the country is desperately in need of a dogged and forthright leader to move it forward in terms of sustainable socio-economic growth and development.

Maintaining that he posses such qualities anf virtue, the former Governor of Kwara State said; ”We are facing the problem of insecurity and bad economy. The level of leakages in our economy is responsible to all we are going through.

“When I become the president I will block all the leakages and deploy technology to fight insecurity.”