The party’s National Convention is scheduled for October 5 and October 6.
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Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, in Abuja on Monday successfully went through screening exercise by the party’s screening committee for presidential aspirants.
A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has said that all the aspirants are committed to supporting any of them that emerges the party’s candidate.
Tambuwal said this over the weekend in Calabar, Cross River State while on a courtesy visit to the Governor of the state, Prof. Ben Ayade, as part of his nationwide consultations over his aspiration to fly the flag of the PDP in the forthcoming presidential election
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Tambuwal made the promise in Benin on Saturday when he met with the PDP delegates and leaders to the October 5 and 6 presidential primaries.
With barely three weeks to the forthcoming national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party where the party is expected to picks its candidate for next year’s presidential election, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has identified the youthful age of his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, as a great asset to Nigeria.
Tambuwal stated this in Birnin Kebbi when he met stakeholders of the party as part of his familiarisation visit ahead of the primary.
Tambuwal said that the Governor of Bayelsa State, the Henry Seriake Dickson, approached him in the heat of the tension that followed the incapacitation and death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua, in 2010, to work out the process that culminated in the emergence of Jonathan as Acting President.
The people of Ebonyi State are desirous to see someone like the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, become Nigeria’s president in 2019.
The aspirants met on Tuesday with the leadership of the party, including State Governors elected on the platform of the party, in Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party has said it was not ready to screen presidential aspirants on the platform of the party for now.
Prince Kasim Afegbua’s intervention on this page last week threw up some interesting aspects of the unfolding drama around the 2019 presidency, especially as it concerns the Governor of Sokoto State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The governor’s ambition is said to be a major headache to the ruling party at the federal level and in most states of the federation
Tambuwal, however, promised to look at the issue “very comprehensively” and resolve it.
The first batch of 259 Muslim pilgrims from Sokoto State, on Monday arrived Nigeria from Saudi Arabia after successful 2018 Hajj.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Sunday paid a condolence visit on his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt over the demise of the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Chief Emmanuel Chinwe Aguma.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto and Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Tuesday donated five cows to the Internally Displaced Persons camp in Gandi town of Rabah Local Government Area of the state to celebrate the Eid-el-Kabir.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports after the Eid-prayers, President Buhari shunned protocol and opted to trek some 800 metres, acknowledging cheers from Nigerians, who lined up on his home route to catch a glimpse of him.
In what appears like a political earthquake, 252 Special advisers and Special assistants appointed by Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state have resigned their appointments.
The governor, in a statement on Sunday, said this in reaction to the claim by the aides that they dumped Tambuwal over his request that they must leave the All Progressives Congress for the Peoples Democratic Party
The Sokoto State of Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has been accused by 252 of his aides who resigned of wanting to force them to swear to an oath not to leave the All Progressives Congress.