Ahead of Saturday’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential
primary, a former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel on Friday
highlighted reasons why a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar will
emerge as the party’s Presidential candidate.
Daniel said the Waziri of Adamawa was the “most competent, most
capable aspirant, the best option and the man who is ready for the task
of getting Nigeria working again,” hence he should be PDP’s Presidential
candidate.
The former governor, who is the Director General, Atiku Presidential
Campaign Organisation, insisted that only Abubakar can guarantee PDP’s
hope of defeating President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 and “restore power
back to Nigerians.”
In a statement he personally signed and obtained by DAILY POST,
Daniel said, “I have the greatest pleasure to present Atiku Abubakar,
GCON, the Waziri Adamawa, former Vice President of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria as the most competent, most capable aspirant, the best option
and the man who is ready for the task of getting Nigeria working again,
as the candidate for our political party in the February, 2019
Presidential election.
“In the next few hours, PDP delegates from various destinations
across the country will be saddled with the responsibility of saving our
dear nation; you will be expected to choose for the Peoples Democratic
Party, and of course the whole country, the man who will take over as
the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“This is a great historical responsibility which Providence has
thrust upon you all to help save the ship of the Nigerian state; to put
right some of the things that we all know, think and acknowledge that
are wrong with this country. My passionate plea, however, is that we
should consider ourselves as patriots who out of a population of close
to 200 million people, just 4,000 men and women have been selected and
elected as delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the 2018
National Convention. What this means, in essence, is that we are the
pathfinders for a troubled nation in its time of great need. We should
bear in mind, that we are not just choosing a presidential candidate for
the Peoples Democratic Party but we are bestowed with the
responsibility of choosing a President for the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.