Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, alongside Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Governor of Bauchi, Sen. Bala Mohammed and former MD, FSB International Bank, Mohammed Hayatuddeen, last night met with former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
All five PDP presidential aspirants met to discuss the ongoing unity and consensus-building initiative being championed by Saraki, Tambuwal and Bala.
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on members of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party to be united in working towards the victory of party in 2023.
Abubakar spoke in an interactive session with BoT members to seek their support for his presidential aspiration in Abuja.
He said anything short of victory would not be good for the party.
He said that the 2023 general election offered the party the opportunity to return to power. He said: “I am worried and you should be worried too that if we do not win, it means we will be in opposition again for the next eight years.
“By the next eight years, I don’t know how many will be left in politics and it may even ultimately lead to the death of the party because people gravitate, particularly in developing countries, towards governments.
“Ordinary people naturally gravitate towards government.
“So this is a very, very crucial and historical moment in history, for our survival.
“I want you to think about it.
“We are now at a crucial moment in this country.
“Many of you here, it is either we retire together or we move on together.”
The former vice president said that PDP administration had from 1999 to 2007 had remarkable achievements that has not been matched by any subsequent administration.
Abubakar said that PDP would scored more votes in 2023 if the BoT members worked together.
He said: “Somebody said that we recorded 12 million votes during the last election.
“Those are not only my votes.
“Those were our votes.
“In achieving or recording those 11 million votes, it was all of us and I believe if we work together again, we can surpass those votes.”
Abubakar dismissed insinuations that he was working against the possible zoning of the PDP presidential ticket to the South East.
He said: “In the party, we invented and formulated this zoning policy simply because we wanted every part of this country to have a sense of belonging and I personally have …
