PDP Convention: Tambuwal, Babangida React To Atku’s Victory

The closest contender with Atiku Abubakar for the Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, Aminu Tambuwal has acknowledged the victory of the former Vice President as the party’s flagbearer for 2019.

While Atiku pulled a total of 1532 votes, the former speaker of the House of Representative and the Sokoto state Governor acquire a number of 693 votes coming ad the runner-up. Next to him was Senate President Bukola Saraki.

In a letter Mr Tambuwal personally signed, he described MrAbubakar’s emergence as a testament to the fact that the PDP is now a reformed party.

”On behalf of my humble self, my
family, and millions of my supporters from across the length and breadth of the country, I heartily rejoice with and
congratulate Your Excellency on your emergence as the standard flagbearer of our great political party, the PDP at the just concluded National Convention
held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

”Your emergence in a transparent
process is a testament to the fact
that the PDP is now a reformed
party and has sent a strong signal
about our resolve to bring about
the desired national transformation needed to turn around the fortunes of our beloved nation Nigeria.

”The task at hand, going forward, is to ensure victory at the polls in order to save our fatherland from the current regime of annihilation bestriding it.

”This calls for unity of purpose
that admits of no division, no
distractions and no internal wrangling. I commit myself to this task and urge all members of our great party to roll up their sleeves and set to work as members of one united family,” Tambuwal added.

Meanwhile, a former military president,
Ibrahim Babangida, also extended a
congratulatory message to the former vice president.

”One of the few reasons I admire Atiku is because he is one of the very few politicians who has a lot of investments in Nigeria; forsome of these reasons, he has my blessings. We shall ‘Atikulate’ together in 2019, my congratulations to him,” Mr Babangida said in his short statement.