A former
Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has notified the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and various stakeholders of his intention to
contest for the presidency in 2019.....
Confirming the development to Daily
Trust, yesterday, his spokesperson, Malam Sule Ya’u Sule, said Shekarau,
a former Governor of Kano State, had sent notification letters to the
PDP and all relevant stakeholders.
Sule
explained that Shekarau had 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 personally
signed and sent to one of his political associates, Malam Hassan S.
Indabawa, dated August 22, 2017, Shekarau said soon after the 2015
general elections, there had been various calls by individuals and
groups from many quarters urging his candidature to contest for the
presidency in 2019.
Few days ago, a former Governor of
Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, also sent a letter of notification to
PDP leaders and members on his readiness to try his luck at the
presidency in 2019.
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