2023: Group tasks PDP to present credible presidential candidate

• ….Urges Atiku to step aside

By Folorunso Alagbede, Abuja

A group, The PDP ACTION 2023, has said that the best way for the party to come out of its current crisis stronger is
by presenting an acceptable candidate for 2023 presidential election.
This is even as the group has advised former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to stay off the forthcoming general election and play a fatherly role by offering advice to the party.
The PDP Action 2023 group, in a statement yesterday by its Chairman, Hon. Rufus Omeire, suggested that the presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 election should step aside and allow others, preferably the younger generation, to step forward.
According to the group, ‘The current crisis in PDP is a normal struggle in party politics. We believe PDP Governors and stakeholders will soon resolve the crisis and PDP will emerge stronger.
“For PDP to achieve this aim, it should present an acceptable candidate for President in 2023”, it said.
The group added that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar can be asked to take the position of the Chairman PDP Board of Trustees, where he will play an advisory role to younger politicians, as an elder statesman.
Continuing, it said, “We think that time has come for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to step aside and allow others, preferably the younger generation, to step forward.
“He can be asked to take the position of the Chairman PDP Board of Trustees where he will play an advisory role to younger politicians, as an elder statesman.”