2019 PRESIDENCY: SARAKI, ATIKU, MARK, TAMBUWAL OTHERS EYE SDP TICKET
2019
PRESIDENCY: SARAKI, ATIKU, MARK, TAMBUWAL OTHERS EYE SDP TICKET
AT least, seven
presidential aspirants and sixty senators are presently gearing up to contest
the 2019 elections under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has gathered.
The acting
chairman of the party in Anambra State Chief Vincent Obi who revealed this to
newsmen in Awka the Anambra state capital during the flag off, of the
registration exercise in the 21 local government areas of the state.
He said the party
has bounced back with a bang to take over the leadership of the country.
Chief Obi, who
vowed to challenge the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, in the
forthcoming general elections in the state, said the party is targeting to
register at least 2 million eligible voters before the election proper.
He told contacts
party chieftains at the meeting that the National working committee of the
party has directed members to embark on aggressive registration and
mobilization drive.
He also assured
them that the party has no room for urban town gorillers who are jostling from
one political party to another pointing out that Social Democratic Party SDP,
has a long-standing culture and philosophy and should not derail from it.
“Information
reaching us says that about seven presidential aspirants have indicated
interest to run for the presidential election under the platform of SDP but as
it is now nobody has been anointed by the party or earmarked for the post of
number one citizen position under the party”.
He also said that
about sixty senators have also indicated their interest to run under SDP.
He named some of
the presidential hopeful eyeing the position to include, the Senate president
Dr. Bukola Saraki, former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former speaker
of the House of Representative and the serving Sokoto State, Governor,
Barrister Aminu Tambuwal, former Senate president, Senator David Mark and the
Governor of Gombe State, Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo among others.
He, however,
didn’t mention some of the senators but said that some senators representing
Anambra State are carefully studying the political revolution going on in the
party with great interest.
The state acting
chairman, however, said that shortly after the registration and mobilization,
the party will hold its congress and elect their, ward, local government area,
state leaders.
He said the party
had bounced back to take what belongs to it and lead the people of Nigeria to
the promised land because the PDP and APC have failed Nigeria and it is time to
sack them out of governance in Nigeria, he concluded.
