The Chairman of the Board, Senator Walid Jibrin, gave the advice at the board meeting on Thursday in Abuja
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Leading presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the violent incident perpetrated by trouble makers at the headquarters of the PDP at Wadata House, Abuja on Thursday.
Violence erupted at the Peoples Democratic Party National Secretariat on Thursday as supporters of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who accompanied him to submit his presidential nomination form, clashed with some thugs.
Abubakar said this in a statement by his spokesman, Mazi Paul Ibe, in response to a statement by the Presidency on his interview with AFP
I have just submitted my nomination form to the Peoples Democratic Party to officially declare my intention to seek the nomination of the party to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the elections scheduled for 2019.
The Presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari is truly uncompromising, but only when it comes to looting the common patrimony of Nigerians, and squandering their riches.
Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-cultural group, says it has not endorsed any candidate for the 2019 presidential election.
The campaign for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, got a boost on Tuesday when stakeholders of the party in Ondo State gave an open declaration to support him in the forthcoming primaries of the party.
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has restated that getting rid of corruption and entrenching good governance will be better for Nigeria than simple geographical restructuring.
My attention has been drawn to a letter written to Premium Times in response to an essay on restructuring authored by me.
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday gave its blessings to the presidential aspiration of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria and frontline aspirant for the presidential ticket of the party in the 2019 election.
Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday said he regretted not doing much to help the People’s Democratic Party win in Lagos State when he had the opportunity in 2003.
The Peoples Democratic Party has said it was not ready to screen presidential aspirants on the platform of the party for now.
Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has reiterated its resolve to support the candidacy of former Vice President and frontline presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, come 2019.
In a recent interaction in the United States, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo asserted that the “problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring…and we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into the argument that our problems stem from some geographic re-structuring”.
The group led by Princess Adekemi-Adesanya Eboda, National President and Global Coordinator for Women and Youth Support for Atiku, presented the forms to Abubakar at his campaign office in Abuja.
Some ardent supporters of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar have explained the rationale behind their decision to purchase the Peoples Democratic Party Nomination and Expression of Interest forms for him.
The forms were procured and presented to the leading aspirant at the Atiku Presidential Campaign office in Abuja on Friday
Abubakar said this while briefing newsmen at the state secretariat of the party in Minna, Niger State on Thursday.
Atiku stated this in Minna while addressing party supporters at the PDP headquarters.