No candidate will be imposed on us-PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that no section of the country will impose its 2019 presidential candidate on it.

Rather, it said the task of picking who would fly the party’s flag would be the joint efforts of all delegates to the party’s convention where the candidate would be elected.

The spokesperson for the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, who spoke with our correspondent on Tuesday in Abuja, said that every member of the party would have a say on who would fly the party’s ticket in 2019.

Our correspondent gathered that there were misgivings in the party following the decision of the northern elders and stakeholders, who met in Abuja on Saturday and demanded that the region be allowed to play a prominent role in picking the party’s presidential candidate from the North.
In the communique signed by Mantu, the forum said that, it would remain “non-partisan, but political, non-ethnic and non-religious.”

According to observations, apart from a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba, who is still a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, majority of the attendees are members of the PDP.