Consensus candidacy: Ciroma Committee summons IBB, others

THE Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led committee charged with the responsibility of picking a Northern consensus candidate ahead of the PDP Presidential primaries has invited the four aspirants involved in the deal to a crucial meeting tomorrow in Kaduna.
General Ibrahim Babangida, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, General Aliyu Gusau and Governor Bukola Saraki are to be briefed by the committee on the selection of one of them as consensus candidate.
It is expected that the final announcement of the successful aspirant will be made on Tuesday, even as 32 political parties constituting the Patriotic Electoral Alliance of Nigeria, PEAN, vowed to check the “excesses,”of the ruling PDP.
Tomorrow’s meeting, Saturday Vanguard gathered will take a second look at the report of the selection sub-committee.
The four aspirants have pledged to support whoever carries the day.
The winner will then face President Goodluck Jonathan in seeking PDP’s presidential ticket for next year’s election.
Other members of the committee include a former Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji M.D. Yusuf; one-time national chairman of the PDP, Chief Audu Ogbeh; former Senate President, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu and Prof Ignatius Ayua.
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