By Correspondent in Ilorin.
The Chairman, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin has urged all presidential aspirants on the platform of the party to maintain decorum over their presidential aspirations.
Our Correspondent reports that the BoT chairman’s advice is coming on the heels of Presidential aspirants of the party engaging in a proxy war, recently, over the issue.
The lastest was development in that regard was the attack by Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike on the leader of the technical committee of Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign, Raymond Dokpesi where he called Dokoesi as a mole working for APC.
But Jibrin on Friday in Ilorin during the turbanning ceremony of former National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, as the Tafida of Ilorin by the Emir, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, said the party would come out with it’s position on the matter very soon.
“I will urge all our presidential aspirants to be calm about the issue of their presidential aspirations.
“To us, the country comes first and we will soon come out with our position on the presidential contest for all our aspirants,this is very important. And another important thing is that, the party is yet to zone it to any part of the country”, the Second republic senator added.
On the issue of the electoral act, the BoT chairman said “President Muhammadu Buhari should assent to it at the right time”.
Other dignitaries at the event held at the forecourts of the Emir’s palace were: former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, DG, National Institute of Legislative Studies, Prof. Suleiman Abubakar, Grand Mufti of Ilorin, Sheikh Suleiman Onikijipa, billionaire oil magnate, Hajia Muinat Shagaya, Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Manir Muhammed and the PDP chairman, Alhaji Bello Aliyu Goronyo among others.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.