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2023 Presidency: North-Central PDP Adopts Bukola Saraki

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Nov 30, 2021.

2023 presidency: North-Central PDP adopts Saraki

EKO HOT BLOG reports that former Senate President Bukola Saraki has been named the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election by chieftains and stakeholders in the North-Central zone.

Prof. Yorwuese Hagher, a stakeholder and head of the Movement for North Central Presidency, told journalists in Lafia that the zone was working toward achieving the goal.

Prof. Hagher, a former Nigerian ambassador to Canada who described the North-Central zone as a “bleeding scar on Nigeria’s conscience,” said it was time for the zone to take the reins of the country.

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According to Hagher, the zone has been a pillar of the country’s unity through tough times since independence, and it has aided other zones in producing presidents.

“Out of the country’s six geo-political zones, three have produced presidents – the Northwest, the Southwest and the South-South, the North-Central, the Northeast and the Southeast are yet to produce presidents.

“Today we are happy that North-Central PDP resolved to produce one presidential candidate and that candidate will become eventually the president of this country,’’ he said.

Prof. Hagher said Sen. Saraki would be the candidate and described him as a young man with wealth of experience at every cadre of governance.

He said Saraki would bring his experience to bear by restoring Nigeria to where it belongs.

In his remarks, Mr Theophilus Dakarshan, North-Central PDP Chairman, also noted that the zone had been instrumental to the emergence of presidents since the First Republic.

“The North-Central zone has in the past given its unflinching support to other zones; we appeal to other zones to reciprocate the gesture,’’ he said.

Mr Abubakar Baraje, former PDP Chairman, called on the party to support Sen. Saraki as the sole presidential candidate for 2023 to salvage the country.

“I have not come to sell Bukola Saraki. I have come to sell the idea of one candidate for the North-Central; and the only candidate is Bukola Sarki.

“Saraki will no doubt make a good president because he has demonstrated that clearly when he was governor of Kwara and as Senate president.

“Saraki will turn the economy of this country around,’’ Baraje said.

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