The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Walid Jubrin, has disclosed that he has been receiving threat for failing to give automatic ticket to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the 2023 presidential election.
Jubrin said this on Thursday in Kaduna when he spoke with newsmen.
He said he had received threat calls of an imminent attack on him “for not saying that the PDP” should zone the 2023 presidency to the North East geopolitical zone of the country.
He said he was tagged a traitor for failing to declare Abubakar, former vice-president, as his party’s preferred candidate.
Abubakar was the presidential candidate of the PDP for the 2019 election.
He lost to the incumbent and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, in the poll.
Jibrin said: “I have received calls from some people threatening my life over my coming out not to mention that the presidency of this country be zoned to the North East.
“They were saying that I am a traitor that I should have come out to say that it is only Atiku Abubakar because I said that Atiku was already overthrown by the supreme court.
“They said for that I should say Atiku is the man that I want.”
Jibrin said he could not single-handedly declare anyone as a presidential candidate of the party because it is the duty of stakeholders to select a candidate.
He said some people are rooting for the ticket to be zoned to the South, adding: “If the Igbos ask me how do I explain to them?
“I am a leader, I have to make a lots of consultations with National Working Committee, our Governors, then the NEC has to take decision and they should not forget the party has a constitution and a guideline which says there must be primary for whoever wants to contest.
“About three people went to Wadata Plaza (the party secretariat in Abuja) and demanded to see Munir Yerima.
“When they were there, Yerima rang me saying where am I and I said I am in Kaduna.
“Then he said some people want to talk to me and I said let me talk to them on phone.
“He said they are intermediary between me and some party people.
“They said I have gone astray and if I don’t recant they would arrange bandits to deal with me wherever I go.
“So I told the man to go and do whatever he wants to do that Iam equal to the task.
“Then I realise it was only a demonstration but they may be planning to assassinate me.”
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