The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, sympathized with the victims of flood in Jigawa State when he paid a sympathy visit to the state yesterday.

This is coming weeks after his media adviser, Paul Ibe, in a statement said the PDP presidential candidate will commence a tour of states with high incidences of flooding across all geo-political zones in the country.

Atiku who was in Jigawa on Friday night to offer his sympathy and support to the victims of flood visited the emirs of Hadejia and Dutse to sympathize with them on behalf of the victims.

He urged the victims to take it as an act of God and prayed for Almighty Allah to grant the soul of the deceased eternal rest and the fortitude to bear the loss.

While reacting, the Emir of Dutse, Dr Nuhu Muhammad Sanusi, commended the presidential candidate for the gesture, while he also gave assurances of proper monitoring of the distribution of donations including those given by presidential candidates.

“I am sure the committee for the raising and distribution of flood palliative will do the needful to channel all the support to the affected victims,” he said.

DAILY POST reported that the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu have made similar donations to the Jigawa State flood victims.

JASONjnr:
There is no lie here.....

As it stands.....Anybody can trash Tinubu and Atiku put together.....


Keep inducement aside......Atiku and Tinubu are backward and unintelligent to debate sensibly and convincingly to win any election.

Ronald1:
Commissioner for health ondo state Dr wahab adegbenro reportedly dead .. cause of death and other details to be updated later

DonVikings:
Stories for pigs and idiots. Keep your juicy or alomo bitters positions to yourselves. Yorubas and SW wants none of your killer party's overtures.

Nonsense.

Nogodye:
This Man forget to tell us about the $10000 he distributed to delegates to be voted for...

yarimo:
PDP disturbing people as if it is still a responsible party, mtcheeew I wish this December 9 should come quickly so that the convention outcome should finally buried PDP .

SultanYoung:
I love the courage lets wait and see till the if he wins invite me for a drink,if he lose I will invite you for drink

kcmichael:
Colossal failure!!!!!!.

SultanYoung:
He will never win bet and see that chairmanship is going for someone more brutal than this slowpoke

temitemi1:
. ‘His experience in party politics, unique selling point’

. Gets backing of S’East, S’South, Northern Govs

. Inability of consensus candidate in S’West favours ex-PDP acting chair

Barely two weeks to the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), tension is mounting as to what the result of the elections would be and what the results portends for the future of the party.

This is as the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party has fixed Thursday for a meeting to discuss issues being generated by the convention.

While many of the aspirants are worried because of the failure of the national leadership of the party to release the list of those that would conduct the December 9 National Convention, there are strong indications that the odds favour Prince Uche Secondus, a candidate considered as the dark horse in the race, to clinch the chairmanship position.

This is because many believe that the former acting National Chairman has deep experience in the internal workings of the party and that is his strongest selling point.

Secondus, The Daily Times gathered, fit perfectly well into the mindset of a cross-section of PDP stakeholders that have vowed not to settle for anything less than experience as the most critical consideration for supporting any of the candidates jostling for the soul of the party.

The former chairman of the party in Rivers State is also seen by many as a person that knows the party inside out. His role in the rebuilding process of the party could not be ignored, as he is acknowledged as one of the very few that saved the PDP’s ship from a total wreck. He is believed to be strong, bold and pushful and that with him on the driver’s seat, the party may return to power in 2019.

To some members of the party organs, Prince Secondus remains the most qualified for the chairmanship position going by his antecedents before and after the crisis that culminated in the loss of the party in the 2015 general election.

While the PDP’s Governors Forum has not made an open preference, it is believed that majority of the governors will back Secondus for the position.

A grapevine from the forum said: “It is almost clear that PDP governors prefer Secondus. Governors of the party from the South East and South-South automatically throw their weights behind him and he also has the support of their Excellencies from the Northern zones and most surprisingly is that of Ekiti State governor who naturally should be rooting for one of the candidates from the South West.”

Though feelers from the camp of PDP former governors painted a divided house with about three candidates getting attention, however, former governors from the South East and South-South states are solidly behind Secondus.

It was further learnt that these former governors from South East and South-South have enlisted the support of some of their Northern counterparts for Secondus, while those from the South West already had their fold depleted with three of them, Chief Olabode George of Lagos State, Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State and Rasheed Ladoja of Oyo State eyeing the post. None of them is ready to step down while the lack of consensus candidate from South West will favour Secondus.

A member of the PDP Board of Trustees who spoke with The Daily Times on condition of anonymity, said: “At this critical stage of our party’s life, we need an experienced person, who knows the nitty-gritty of the party, who knows about the day-to-day affairs of the party and that is why someone like our former Deputy National Chairman, Uche Secondus, is the most preferred candidate.

“He is somebody who has been in the engine room of the party, who has been at the head of the party; he would be able to rebuild the party, reunite old members, and reposition the PDP to take back power in 2019.”

He further justified Secondus’ eligibility to run for the position, which according to him, has been blanketly zoned to the Southern part of the country as against the belief of a micro-zoning to the South-West.

“He is eminently qualified because he is from one of the three geo-political zones in the Southern part of the country to which the chairmanship position has been zoned. He is from the South-South zone where the party is having less crisis and River State where there is no crisis within the party unlike in other zones where we have some issues,” he said.

One of the contestants in the chairmanship race, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, has even accused the national leadership of the party of working to favour Secondus in the race.

Adeniran, in a letter to the party leadership, accused them of deliberately including the names of five loyalists of Secondus on the list of those to conduct congresses; an action which he said was aimed at giving him undue advantage.

But the party executive has said there was no deliberate plan to favour anyone, as there was no way they would know those loyal to a particular candidate before appointing them to undertake party duties when they are known to be faithful party members.

Secondus campaign group has also denied an allegation that their principal is an anointed candidate in the race, rather they attributed Secondus’ wide acceptance to a result of his wide consultations across the country.

He was said to have been reaching out to delegates across the 36 states, seeking their votes and presenting his agenda for the revival of the party ahead of 2019.

He was said to have been reaching out to delegates across the 36 states, seeking their votes and presenting his agenda for the revival of the party ahead of 2019.

Read more at: https://dailytimes.ng/headlines/uche-secondus-may-emerge-pdp-national-chairman/

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