2023 Presidencial Election: Saraki says consensus candidacy best for unity

The former President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, says that all the Presidential aspirants of The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the North are working for a consensus candidate to foster desired unity in the country..

Saraki disclosed this in Asaba when he led other aspirants, including Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, and former Managing Director of FSB International Bank Plc, Alhaji Mohammad Hayatu-Deen, on a consultative visit to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at Government House, Asaba.

He said that Nigeria is in dire need of competent leaders to reverse the country’s slide into poverty, insecurity, and anarchy calling on stakeholders of the party to support a consensus arrangement to ensure that the party remained united and able to rescue the country from maladministration.

Responding, Okowa thanked the visitors for coming to intimate him on their plans insisting that consensus candidacy is indeed in the best interest of the unity of the party and the country.