The Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has disclosed that any member of the Peoples Democratic Party that picks a presidential nomination form to slug it out with President Goodluck Jonathan at the party’s primaries is a troublemaker and a saboteur after the party had unanimously endorsed Jonathan to run for a second term.
Governor Aliyu said on Tuesday at a media platform in Minna, organized by the state’s Correspondent Chapel to mark his 59th birthday: “The party did not print only one copy of the presidential nomination form ahead of the 2015 general elections as insinuated by some persons.
“This cannot be true.
“But that whoever is doing contrary is either not a party member or a trouble maker or he is looking for identity or just wants to be noticed by the society.
“My party said it printed one copy?
“I don’t know whether anybody is quoted as saying that.
“Nobody has been quoted as saying my party printed one copy, but where all the PDP governors came together and endorsed the sole candidature of Mr. President, the whole PDP senators and members of the House of Representatives did the same, the Board of Trustee of the party did the same, the executive committee members of the party ratified all these decisions, unless you are either not a party member or you are a trouble maker or you are looking for identity or you just want to be noticed by the society will you pick the presidential nomination form.
Aliyu added that with the endorsement, President Jonathan remains the party’s sole candidate.
He said: “Our decision means that we expect that the President is the party’s sole candidate after buying the form, but whether it is the one that is printed or not, I don’t know about that one.
“Like I said, nobody said so and we cannot credit anybody as saying that, but I believe that somebody wrote it quickly.”
Speaking on why it is almost difficult for deputy governors to succeed their bosses, Governor Aliyu said: “I did not change my position of the saying that God gives power.
“In arrangement, it is like the zoning gives more privilege just like I am here.
“I know what is on the ground and obviously I did not have interest in who succeeds me and also I must have it at the back of my mind that not necessarily my preference.
“It must be God’s preference.
“I think we should understand that no matter the number of people that are running for governorship, at the end of the day, there will be one governor.
“I am a living witness and there are many situations like that, whatsoever you are planning against your opponent, give windows for God’s will because he can call upon us at any given time.
“Most importantly, we must know how to relate with our people.”
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