A former
Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, has indicated interest to run for the
presidency in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
His
spokesperson, Sule Ya’u Sule, said Mr. Shekarau, who is also a former Governor
of Kano State, sent a notification letter to the PDP of his intention to run.
The party’s
spokesperson Dayo Adeyeye, in a text message this morning confirmed that the
party received Shekarau’s letter of interest.
Mr. Sule said
Mr. Shekarau has communicated his political ambition to various elders,
community leaders, opinion leaders, political associates and religious leaders
regardless of their ethnic and party affiliations.
“Malam
Shekarau deliberately refused to make his ambition public because he does not
want the relevant stakeholders to read it for the first time on the pages of
newspapers. He first notified them before making it public. He is now making
necessary consultations,” he said.
In a letter
which he was said to have personally signed and sent to one of his political
associates, Hassan Indabawa, dated August 22, 2017, Mr. Shekarau said after the
2015 general elections, there had been requests by individuals and groups from
different quarters urging him to contest for the presidency in 2019.
Prior to this,
former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, also sent a letter of
notification PDP leaders and members on his interest and readiness to run for
presidency in 2019.
The party has
zoned the position to the north. Despite this, governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti
state in South-west Nigeria had declared interest in the position noting the
aparthy (to declare) of prospective Northern candidates as one of the reasons
for throwing his hat into the ring.
Source: PremiumTimesNG
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