2023: Saraki, Bala Moh’d, Tambuwal To Pick Consensus Candidate To Battle Atiku For PDP Ticket

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State are set to pick a consensus amongst themselves to battle for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket.

Naija News reports that whoever is picked among the trio will battle for the ticket against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who has already purchased the party’s presidential nomination form.

Aminu Tambuwal, Bukola Saraki and Bala Mohammed

Speaking to newsmen on Sunday after a meeting in Bauchi State, Saraki said the PDP is the only alternative to a collapsing All Progressives Congress (APC).

The former Kwara State governor, who was speaking on behalf of Tambuwal and Mohammed, disclosed that their meeting was about picking a consensus Northern aspirant.

Saraki said, “We came here and had a meeting for about two hours now all the three of us that have shown interest in leading this country, our concern for the hardship our people are going through, the high cost of living and also looking ahead towards 2023.

“It is very clear that the PDP is the only viable solution to rescue this country today and to provide new hope. And as such, as key stakeholders of this party, it is important for us to sit down and meet and put heads together and see how best we can provide leadership and direction.

“In so doing, we met and discussed that with 2023 ahead of us and in trying to rescue this country, the unity, stability and growth of the country are more important than individual ambitions. We believe that if the three of us that are working together honestly, committed and with a lot of zeal for this country, there will be a great hope for this country going forward.

“We appreciate that the three of us have shown aspirations to lead this country and what we have come to realize is that we are all competent and capable to lead this country but at the end of the day, it is only one person that will lead this country in 2023. We have also resolved that we will work closely together to ensure that we will come out with a consensus candidate among the three of us.

“We believe our role is to make things easier for us to have stability because if there is stability in PDP, there will be stability in Nigeria. You’ve all seen that APC is no longer a party, it is having challenges of administering its party and anybody that cannot administer a party cannot lead the country.”