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PDP BoT At Cross Roads Over Choice Of Party’s Presidential Aspirant

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Members of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, are presently facing disagreement over their support for presidential aspirants in the party.

The party’s board had last week ordered its members to be neutral and not declare support for any of the party’s 13 presidential aspirants.

Senator Walid Jibrin, the Chairman of the Board, who spoke after the meeting, said the members of the BoT should be the right example for the party.

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He stated that the members of the Board would be the judge of any grievances between aspirants before and after the presidential primary slated for October 5 and 6 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

However at the inauguration of former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, in Abuja on Thursday, three members of BoT were in attendance.

They were John Nwodo, Vincent Ogbulafor, who was both former National Chairman of the party and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi.

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Jibrin had said, “If you are a member of BoT, you remain as a member of the BoT and the conscience of the party. They should not move about with any aspirant.

“If we are really the conscience of the party, we should not move about with aspirants. That was what happened during the last national convention when we elected the national chairman.

“Some of us went and pitched camp with aspirants, taking them all over the place. This time, we will not allow that to happen.

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“Anyone of us who move about with any aspirant should resign from the BoT. We are the one that will settle the complaints.

“But if we are involved, it will not be fair. So, we have told the members not to campaign with the aspirants; we are also the delegates.

According to Punch the topic of discussion by the board had earlier been related to aspirants on Thursday night in Abuja.

Jibrin said, “We will address it on Friday when I will be briefing you on the outcome of our meeting with the aspirants,” he said.

Meanwhile, Atiku has named Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and 58 other persons as members of his presidential nomination council ahead of the PDP presidential primaries.

The members of the council are taken from several stated in the country and they are eminent stakeholders in the party.

Their duty is to mobilise support for Atiku in their respective states ahead of the PDP presidential primary.

Announcing the membership of the council, the Director-General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation who is also a former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, said, “The work of this council as the name connotes  is to mobilise PDP delegates from all the states of the country for Atiku to emerge as the presidential candidate of our great party.

Atiku while speaking stated that the step to renew the country is a difficult one, but has to take a patriots to improve the lives of their compatriots.

He said, “Nigerians are yearning for jobs, for opportunities, for unity and security. We must work with them to deliver these.

“We must also restore truth in politics, justice and fairness in governance, and a genuine federal system that helps us address local priorities and run a more effective and efficient government.