A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kabiru Turaki , has declared that he won’t step down for former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and other aspirants.
He made the remark while stressing that he wasn’t fronting for another aspirant.
His stance was contained in a statement issued by the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, on Sunday.
The statement dismissed as “ridiculous, the very idea of Turaki stepping down for anybody”, noting “that such will never happen”.
The statement reads, “There is nothing like that. He will never step down for anybody. We are not working with anybody.
“Turaki is eminently qualified to provide the kind of leadership Nigeria needs at this critical juncture of her history. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, he has risen to the top of his profession, Law.
“He has requisite managerial and leadership experiences, having served his country meritoriously as a former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Supervising Minister of Labour and Productivity, and Chairman, Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of the Security Challenges in the North East.
“Turaki is neither old nor too young. He is strong, vibrant and possess a first-class intellect and the kind of radical ideas needed to take Nigeria out of the woods and make her a respected member of the comity of nations whose citizens would be proud of, instead of the present situation where many Nigerians have lost hope in the country and would do anything to migrate abroad through any means possible.
“Turaki has toured more states than any other aspirant and has received assurances of support from many of the states so far visited for consultations.
“He is the New Face of Hope Nigeria needs at this time and we are confident that our great party will give him the mandate to contest and defeat President Muhammadu Buhari, whose visionless administration has set Nigeria several years backward, in the 2019 presidential election.”
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