2019: Shekarau, ex Kano Governor, joins PDP presidential race

Former Governor of Kano State and erstwhile Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has indicated interest to run for the presidency in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Shekarau has already written to the leadership and members of the PDP about his interest The Media Adviser to the former Governor, Mr Sule Ya’u Sule, confirmed that Shekarau had sent a notification letter to the PDP of hisintention to run. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP Dayo Adeyeye, in a text message yesterday confirmed that the party received Shekarau’s letter of interest. Sule added that the former Governor has equally communicated his political ambition to various elders, community leaders, opinion leaders, political associates and religious leaders regardless of their ethnic and party affiliations. According to him, “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 was said to have personally signed and sent to one of his political associates, Hassan Indabawa, dated August 22, 2017, Mr. Shekarau said after the 2015 general elections, there had been requests by individuals and groups from different quarters urging him to contest for the presidency in 2019. Prior to this, former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, also sent a letter of notification PDP leaders and members on his interest and readiness to run for presidency in 2019. The party has zoned the position to the north. Despite this, governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state in South-west Nigeria had declared interest in the position noting the aparthy (to declare) of prospective Northern candidates as one of the reasons for throwing his hat into the ring.
|Daily Times