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Kogi PDP gov’ship: I have no anointed aspirant, says Atiku

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has declared that he has no preferred aspirant in the ongoing process to choose a governorship candidate for party in Kogi State. 

Atiku in a statement by Paul Ibe, his media adviser, said his principal has no anointed candidate in the state primary election. 

He said Atiku believes that the decision to elect the flag bearer of the PDP in the coming election in the state is the responsibility of electors in that primary election.

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He therefore urges anyone “amongst the candidates to desist from peddling influence with his name and, indeed, calls on the media not to lay prostrate to any blackmail against him.” 

Ibe said Atiku believes that all the aspirants in the election are up to the task of flying the flag of the PDP and the electorate should be given the unfettered rights to perform their constituted duty of electing the best person for the party. 

“We wish to state categorically that such media reports are false and gross fabrication. Atiku is a consummate democrat and the hallmark of his political struggles has been for the enablement of internal democracy in party politics,” the statement reads.

 

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