Governor Aminu Tambuwal, a PDP presidential aspirant, has warned that letting the wrong presidential candidate assume power in 2023 can pr...
Governor Aminu Tambuwal, a PDP presidential aspirant, has
warned that letting the wrong presidential candidate assume power in 2023 can
prove disastrous to Nigeria.
He also advised the party’s delegates in Lagos not to
mortgage the future of their children by voting for the wrong aspirant.
Mr Tambuwal, in company of PDP chieftains, stated this when
he met the national delegates of the
Lagos chapter of the PDP on Wednesday
night in Ikeja.
The party’s presidential primary elections will be held on
May 28 and 29.
“Don’t mortgage the future of your children, don’t mortgage
the future of this country. This is the ‘Centre of Excellence’, you must go for
excellence. Check all, and be guided by conscience as you cast your vote on May
28 and 29,” he urged the delegates.
The Sokoto governor said he performed well as a former
speaker of the House of Representatives and governor of Sokoto.
“It is not about where you are from. It is about your
person, character, competence, capacity and whether the people can trust you
with power. Power in the wrong hands can destroy everything,” stated Mr
Tambuwal. “You must, therefore, put on your thinking caps and think wisely as
we put up measures to nominate our party’s flag bearer who can together and
collectively with all of us and other
leaders of our party, win the election
for the PDP.”
The governor pledged not to be a dictator but rather to run a fully democratic governance.
Mr Tambuwal, who decried the level of insecurity, economic
hardship and corruption, said his first priority if elected would be to forge
unity in the country and give hope to the hopeless.
He cautioned against sentiments in choosing the party’s flag
bearer.
“The job is a very taxing one. It requires experience
because we cannot afford to take the risk of experimenting leadership in this
country again. Nigeria is indeed challenged and we must do everything humanly
possible together to surmount the challenges and to build it,” Mr Tambuwal
added. “We must be very clear in our vision and in understanding the type of
leader Nigeria requires at this time.”
According to him, Nigeria needs a leader with experience in
democratic governance.
“I understand issues of this country, having served for 12
years in the House of Representatives and related with the representatives of
virtually 360 federal constituencies of this country at different times as a
member, minority leader, deputy chief whip and ultimately as speaker of the
house of representatives,” he told the Lagos delegates.
Mr Tambuwal added, “I have been more close with most of the
representatives from various tribes of this country. I understand the issues of
this country are as complex as they are. They (issues) require dexterity,
capacity, competence and character. We can and we must make Nigeria work.
Nigeria will work again for all of us.”
The Sokoto governor
also called for unity and understanding among PDP members in Lagos to begin the
process of ruling the state in 2023.
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