Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State who is also a PDP presidential aspirant has opened up about the importance of voting in the right individuals while advising his party’s delegates in Lagos State not to mortgage the future of their children and that of the country by voting wrong aspirant in PDP presidential primary.
The Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that the main opposition party has fixed its presidential primary on May 28 and 29 to choose flag bearer for the 2023 general elections.
Tambuwal, in company of some PDP chieftains, made this remark when he met national delegates to the Lagos chapter of PDP on Wednesday night in Ikeja.
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The governor, who advised the delegates to critically assess the aspirants’ track records in choosing the party’s presidential flag bearer, said that they must go for the most competent, professional and experienced.
“Don’t mortgage the future of your children, don’t mortgage the future of this country.
“This is the Centre of Excellence, you must go for excellence. Check all, and be guided by conscience as you cast your vote on May 28 and May 29.
“Check our records as aspirants and know what to do. The task ahead is the task of rebuilding Nigeria and it requires someone at the centre who can midwife that process. I am a pan-Nigerian,” he said.
The governor said that he had delivered as former Speaker of the House of Assembly and governor of Sokoto State, not owing workers’ salary, pension and gratuity while also delivering massive infrastructure with meagre resources.
Tambuwal added: “It is not about where you are from, it is about your person, character, competence, capacity and whether the people can trust you with power.
“Power in the wrong hands can destroy everything. Leadership is what we lack in Nigeria today.
“You must therefore put up your thinking caps and think wisely as we put up measures to nominate our party’s flag bearer who can together and collectively with all us and other leaders of our party wins the election for the party.”
Tambuwal listed variables and factors in winning election to include age, capacity, experience, competence and character, adding that he had passed all the variables.
The governor, who sought the support of the delegates, pledged not to be a dictator but rather run a fully democratic governance.
He urged the delegates to have the criteria of the type of leader they wanted to give their children and the one they want to be seen in the international scene.
Tambuwal, who decried the level of insecurity, economic hardship and corruption, said his first priority if elected would be to unite the country and give hope to the hopeless.
He cautioned against sentiment in choosing the party’s flag-bearer.
