2023: PDP BoT urges decorum over members presidential aspirations
By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin
Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jibrin, has urged all its presidential aspirants to maintain decorum over their presidential aspirations.
It would be recalled that the presidential aspirants in the party had engaged in a proxy war recently over the issue.
The latest was the attack by Rivers State Governor Nyesome Wike on the leader of the technical committee of Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign, Raymond Dokpesi, calling him a mole working for the APC.
But Jibrin on Friday in Ilorin during the turbaning ceremony of former National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Bareje, as the Tafida of Ilorin by the Emir, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, said the party would soon come out with its position on the matter.
“I will urge all our presidential aspirants to be calm about the issue of their aspirations.
“To us, the country comes first and we will soon come out with our position on the presidential contest for all our aspirants, this is very important. And another important thing is that the party is yet to zone it to any part of the country”, the Second republic senator added.
On the issue of the electoral act, the BoT chairman urged President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to it at the right time.
Other dignitaries at the event which held at the forecourts of the Emir’s palace are former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, DG, National Institute of Legislative Studies, Prof Suleiman Abubakar, Grand Mufti of Ilorin, Sheikh Suleiman Onikijipa, billionaire oil magnate, Hajia Muinat Shagaya, Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Manir Muhammed and the PDP chairman, Alhaji Bello Aliyu Goronyo, among others.