PDP Presidential ticket: We will queue behind whoever emerges our candidate – Turaki assures

Unperturbed at the number of presidential aspirants for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has reiterated that no matter the outcome of the party primary, they are ready to put aside pride and queue behind whoever emerges as the candidate to win the 2019 election.

Turaki, the former Supervising Minister, Ministry of Labour and Productivity made this declaration during his presidential ambition tour to the PDP, Edo State chapter secretariat, Benin City, on Monday.

The Senior Advocate hinted that it became necessary for the interest of Nigerians who have never had it so badly since the annal of this country. He added that what the country needed at the moment is someone who can rescue it from the present shackle of economic woes inflicted by the All Progressives Congress in the last three years.

He said: “Though, we have many aspirants in PDP today, and a lot of people are sitting by the window saying with all these gladiators that are contesting in PDP, wiling to reap from where they have not invested and I laughed at them.

“I have been able to go and talk to each and everyone of the aspirants. I will be speaking to each other and speaking to ourselves and we clearly understood that it is not about us.

“It is not even about our party, but it is about our country. If Nigeria people will say they have agreed and other about 39 political parties will also ask the party to be in the front, we must be very careful. We must subordinate our selfish interest to national interest

“And today, though, each one of these aspirants are imminently qualified to become Nigeria’s president and do it one thousand better than what APC is doing, we believe that because power comes from God.

“And we must concern ourselves with the fact that whosoever gets the ticket of the delegates, we will line behind that person.

“If we must rescue Nigeria, so let us leave our pride aside. Let us look at the bigger picture. And the bigger picture is that, PDP should get a candidate that will overwhelm the APC candidate in 2019 election.”

Furthermore, the current chairman of PDP former Ministers’ Forum of Nigeria, stressed thta the country has never been so divided than as it is now, pointing that it was misnormal for a president of a country to have said that he would develop certain states because they voted massively for him during the last presidential election while other states that barely contribute five percent to his election will equally be given development commensurate with their votes.

He said: “If I win as the president, it is embedded on me to allow even development across the length and breadth of the country irrespective of their quantum of votes cast.

“The present state of the nation is moving from bad to worse due to the failure of the ruling party to implement the 2014 confab report and address the issues raised at the confab.

“If the report from the confab is looked into, there would not have been the present situation. I believe in restructuring and the kinds of restructuring must be looked into critical to know what is paramount in each of the agitations.

“For the country to get it right at the moment, Nigerians must cast their vote for one who has an impeccable character and one that can serve as a bridge builder across the country.

“I will ensure security of lives and properties of Nigerians, improve the economy, infrastructure, if I have the whole ideas it will not work out unless I become the president of this country.

“We need a candidate that is well educated, experienced, a bridge builder and somebody that had no traces of corruption and above all the fear of God.”