Kabiru Taminu Turaki
Former Minister of Special Duties Kabiru Turaki (SAN) has said the Peoples Democratic Party might settle for a consensus candidate towards the 2019 presidential election.
The presidential aspirant of the party said the possibility would not be ruled out as the party is presently parading quality materials that were capable of returning the country to the path of greatness and reverse the dangerous trend of the present administration.
Turaki stated this in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital, during his meeting with stakeholders of the party as the primaries to elect the presidential candidates of parties to draw near.
He said, “I am not overruling the possibility of a consensus emerging within the PDP family of presidential aspirants and I have said it that we have been talking to each other, we have been talking to ourselves, that is the first step of getting to that point.
“We now have gotten to the level where we understand ourselves, we have gotten to the level where all of us have agreed that we should subordinate our private interest to the national interest, all of us have agreed that it is only one person that will do it and all of us have agreed and are conscious of the fact that power comes from God.
“We have resolved and resolute that whosoever among us that gets it, others will follow him religiously because we believe that any one of us that is now aspiring to get the ticket, once elected, will perform 1000 times better than what the APC led federal government is doing today and that shall be a blessing for Nigeria.”
The presidential hopeful, however, regretted that the country is in its present position despite the many promises made by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari, in the build-up to the 2015 general election..