Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed; and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, have indicated interest to contest for president in the 2023 general elections, Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has revealed.<\/p>\n
Gov Makinde added that they are among the \u201ceminently qualified\u201d personalities in the Peoples Democratic Party that can lead the country successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n He disclosed this while featuring on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television, which our correspondent monitored from Abuja on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI make bold to say that the situation in this country today, the only way that you can stop PDP at the federal level is by dividing PDP internally. All the governors of the PDP are well aware of this fact and we made unity within ourselves our number one priority. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOnce the governors of PDP are able to move in one direction, align on most of the issues and the challenges we are faced with, I think there is hope for this country.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe issue right now is that our party \u2014 PDP \u2014 has eminently qualified personalities that can lead this country successfully. Some have indicated interest, like former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, like Governor Tambuwal, like Governor Bala Mohammed. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey have indicated interest. But the bottom line is when we get to that bridge, we will definitely cross it. What is important at this stage, which I will solicit the support of PDP members and the generality of Nigerians, is please support us to have a successful national convention.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere is no way you can become anything \u2014 president, vice-president, even governor \u2014 if we don\u2019t have a party. What we want to do first is ensure that we get things right within our party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed; and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, have indicated interest to contest for president in the 2023 general elections, Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has revealed. Gov Makinde added that they are among the \u201ceminently qualified\u201d personalities in the Peoples Democratic Party that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1503,1407,260,110,1536,3433],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-abubakar-atiku","tag-aminu-tambuwal","tag-bala-mohammed","tag-pdp","tag-presidential-ticket","tag-seyi-makinde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}