My Life In Danger For Not Endorsing Atiku For 2023 Election – PDP BoT Chairman
Walid Jibrin, chairman of the board of trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says there are threats to his existence for now not endorsing Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate in 2023.
Jibrin announced last week that the competition party might soon reveal plans for deciding on its presidential candidate in the 2023 preferred election.
According to him, the candidate ought to emerge from any zone in the united states of america.
But talking to journalists on Thursday in Kaduna, Jibrin stated he obtained calls from some humans threatening his lifestyles for not announcing the birthday celebration’s presidential price ticket could be zoned to the north-east.
He stated he changed into tagged a traitor for failing to declare Atiku, former vice-president, as his birthday celebration’s favored candidate.
“I have received calls from some human beings threatening my existence over my coming out not to mention that the presidency of this u . S . be zoned to the north-east,” he stated.
“They were pronouncing that I am a traitor that I should have come out to say that it is best Atiku Abubakar due to the fact I stated that Atiku changed into already overthrown by way of the preferrred court.
“They said for that I ought to say Atiku is the man that I need.”
He stated he could not single-exceeded claim all of us as a presidential candidate of the birthday party due to the fact it’s far the obligation of stakeholders to select a candidate.
He said some humans are rooting for the ticket to be zoned to the south, announcing, “If the Igbos inquire from me how do I provide an explanation for to them?”
“I am a leader, I should make a masses of consultations with National Working Committee, our Governors, then the NEC needed to take selection and they ought to no longer overlook the party has a charter and a tenet which says there need to be number one for whoever wants to contest,” he stated.
“About 3 humans went to Wadata Plaza (the birthday celebration secretariat in Abuja) and demanded to look Munir Yerima.
“When they had been there, Yerima rang me announcing wherein I am and I stated I am in Kaduna, then he said some people want to speak to me and I stated let me communicate to them on phone, he stated they may be intermediary between me and some birthday party human beings.
“They said I have gone off course and if I don’t recant they would arrange bandits to address me anywhere I go.
“So I told the person to head and do some thing he wants to do that Iam same to the task. Then I realize its simplest a demonstration but they may be planning to assassinate me.”
He also said he has knowledgeable the security groups and demanded safety from them.
“I am a very religious individual who cannot even kill a rat or maybe an ant, yet human beings are trying to bother me, to assassinate me. I want the police to present me safety and prevent this harassment,” he stated.
“They stated the humans are from Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kebbi and Jigawa states. It is a gang from these Northern states who are making plans against me. Let’s see if the security organizations could permit this to happen. I would do all anticipated of me, I am not shaken.
“Soon NWC would convene a NEC assembly and conference to ratify the arrangements.
“There are humans agitating for the Southwest, so we have to bring human beings collectively to agree on what human beings want, so they must go away me alone.”