The north elders and PDP have dropped Abubakar Atiku as the choice for the party in the 2023 presidential battle with other parties.
The elders on Friday, April 22, chose Governor Bala Mohammed and former Senate President Bukola Saraki as the best candidates for the PDP A report by the elders’ committee on the choice made has also been received and approved by a former military head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
Professor Ango Abdullahi, the head of the committee which screened the aspirants from the region, noted that the process that produce Mohammed and Saraki was rigorous, Daily Trust reports.
Abdullahi told journalists in Minna, Niger state capital, on Friday, April 22, that former military head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, received and approved a report submitted to him by the committee on the elders’ choice.
In his advice to the Bauchi governor and the former Senate boss, Abdullahi noted that they should both work together and decide on which of them will represent the north in the PDP.
He said: “For the purpose of this exercise, it is hereby resolved that Governor Bala Mohammed from the North-East and former Senate President Bukola Saraki from the North-Central be presented as the northern consensus candidates for the moment. “The successful aspirants are hereby urged to work together to make allowance for further consultations to foster understanding among themselves and the PDP community to ensure a rancour-free primary in which all eligible candidates would be free to exercise their right.”
