POLITICS:PDP Expresses Worry Over Increment Of Presidential Aspirants.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees, of the People Democratic Party Walid Jibrin, has expressed concern over the huge number of individuals aspiring to have the party’s presidential ticket.

He said: “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.

“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”, he said.Another Chieftain of the PDP who spoke under conditions of anonymity claimed that, “The APC is already settled, which gives them a head start with Buhari guaranteed the ticket.

“We cannot afford to lose time and resources with the primary. By the time we are ready settling disputes and appeals, we would have lost valuable space to regain lost grounds.So, the consensus option appears the way to go, though we have worries whether or not it might sit well with the aspirants”.

Earlier, the national Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, had said that any candidate the major opposition party presents for the 2019 presidential election would defeat President Muhammadu Buhari.

“there is no way Nigerians would give their votes to Buhari in 2019; as the present administration had failed to deliver majority of its promises”, the PDP Chairman said in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Notable elected officials seeking for among the PDP presidential ticket are former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state; Governor Ibrahim Dankwabo of Gombe state; a former special duties minister, Tanimu Turaki; and a former governor of Kaduna state, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

Others include two former governors of Kano state, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau; former governor of Sokoto state, Attahiru Bafarawa; former Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido; and an industrialist, Dr Baba Datti Ahmed.

Senate President Bukola Saraki, is speculated to join the race, after consultations