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A former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, says he is considering succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari in the next presidential election in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
This
is just as the Publisher of Ovation International and The Boss magazines, Dele
Momodu, on Monday declared his presidential ambition also under the PDP.
A
former presidential spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, had earlier in 2021 declared
his ambition.
While
these men have yet to officially declare their presidential bid, other
suspected aspirants in the PDP include former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar;
Governors Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto State) and Bala Mohammed (Bauchi State), among
others.
Kwankwanso,
while featuring on Sunday Politics, a current affairs programme on Channels
television monitored by our correspondent on Sunday, dismissed the power
rotation between the North and the South as well as religious considerations
for the president and the vice-president.
Kwankwaso,
while in the APC, were among the aspirants who contested against Buhari for the
party’s ticket in 2015 and 2019.
When
asked if he still had the ambition to become the President of Nigeria, he said,
“The answer is: right at the moment, I am making all the necessary
consultations and contacts. We have friends all over the country; we are
talking to each other and I believe that we are almost there because this is
2022 and the election itself is coming (in the) the first quarter of 2023.
“I
think it is a matter of a little bit of patience. I think in the next couple of
months everything will be clear and will even invite you to come and hear our
position on the issue of the contest. We don’t just go into the field.”
When
asked about the North retaining power after Buhari’s presidency and not
shifting to the South, Kwankwaso said, “Many people are mixing what ordinarily
shouldn’t come together at all. We have PDP, we have APC, we have APGA and we
have many other parties today in this country. The issue of where a party puts
its presidency or vice-presidency is a matter of strategy.
The
ex-governor noted that he had always supported presidential candidates from the
South since the defunct Third Republic, dismissing the report that he was
considering dumping the PDP to rejoin the All Progressives Congress.
Meanwhile,
Momodu, who also featured on Morning Show, a breakfast programme on Arise News
Television, on Monday, also said he was now better prepared to contest for
president, saying he is a younger candidate to take power from the old
politicians Nigerians have always condemned.
“Since
you want me to declare, I might as well declare right here. Let me say (that) I
am very ready. I always tell you: it is impossible to be the president of a
country as big and as diverse, complex and as complicated as Nigeria if you
have not prepared for it,” he maintained.
Punch.
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