Atiku, Obi, 29 governorship candidates summoned by PDP to Abuja

– The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has summoned its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi to a crucial meeting in Abuja

– All the 29 governorship candidates of the party were also asked to report to the nation’s capital for the meeting

– Prince Uche Secondus, the national chairman, is expected to lead members of the National Working Committee of the party to the meeting schedule for Monday, November 19

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi have been summoned by the party’s leadership to a crucial meeting in Abuja, The Punch reports.

Legit.ng gathered that the 29 governorship candidates of the party also asked to report to the nation’s capital for the meeting, which will hold on Monday, November 19.

Atiku, Obi and the governorship candidates had been contacted for the meeting, which the party described as “crucial.”

The meeting with Atiku and others will come before the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party scheduled for next week.

Authoritative sources at the party national secretariat in Abuja, on Friday, November 16, said that the meeting would discuss strategies to win the forthcoming general elections.

Prince Uche Secondus, the national chairman of the party, is expected to lead members of the National Working Committee of the party to the meeting.

Senator Bukola Saraki, the Director-General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, and key members of the council are also expected at the meeting.

A national officer of the party, speaking under condition of anonymity said: “We have called the meeting of our presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi.

“Then all our governorship candidates will also be there. You know elections will not hold in some states? So, the number of the candidates will not be up to 36.

“It is going to be a strategic meeting. We need to put our heads together and tap from the experience of all notable aspirants and plan on how to combat the All Progressives Congress.

“The election is going to be a battle between light and darkness. It is a battle between poverty and desire to live a prosperous life. We have seen what happened in the last three years and we know that Nigerians desire a change for the better.”

TRACKNEWS.NG previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, met behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday, November 16.

While speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, Oshiomhole said that the APC was fully ready to flag off the campaigns soon and that party’s campaign for the 2019 presidential election would focus on character and integrity of the key candidates.

He said that INEC still has a window between now and first of January, 2019, to deal with issues of substitution of candidate names.