The much touted deal by prominent presidential aspirants under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to present a consensus candidate for the 2023 presidential election, may have suffered a setback, IgbereTV reports
This was after the camp of the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, one of the leading proponents of the deal, rejected reports that former Senate President Bukola Saraki and Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed May have emerged the consensus candidates of northern elders of the party.
The Tambuwal Campaign Organisation (TCO), in a statement issued on Friday by the Director of Organisation and Mobilisation, Nicholas Msheliza, dismissed the reports, saying it was not only false but misleading.
The TCO was reacting to reports during the week that the duo of Saraki and Mohammed had been endorsed by Northern elders of the party after a meeting that was held in Minna, the capital of Niger State.
The group insinuated that Saraki had caused some form of confusion in arrangements for aspirants to meet and discuss the issue with other stakeholders, even as it said the arrangement was to produce one candidate and not two candidates, as indicated by the reports.
“Our attention has been drawn to a news item that former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Governor Bala Muhammad of Bauchi State, have emerged as consensus candidates from amongst the four of us announced at a meeting in Minna, Niger State,” the TCO statement reads.
“This is, to be candid and forthright, not correct. The correct situation is that the team met on Wednesday 20th April, 2022, at Bauchi Governor’s lodge in Abuja and had a review meeting; and, unanimously agreed that the consensus arrangement was not working
