I guess the race for the 2023 presidential election is already on the way. The former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has downplayed the possibility of running for president in 2023.
Saraki has indicated that he will bring up the topic at the right time as his focus is on building a strong party and country.
He said, For any PDP member who really loves the party and cares about the country, it is important to have a party first.
One of the reasons he took responsibility for the National Reconciliation Committee was because the party was going to lose a lot of its momentum. Without a strong party, you cannot achieve your individual ambitions.
He also pointed out that last year, some people have already spoken about their ambitions for 2023 and he has told them that now it cannot be about his personal ambition, but they have to build a strong party.
So his goal now is to build a strong party and they have started the process with the congresses, reconciliation, and hopefully the convention.
When they are done with that, he can talk about individual interests. In due course, he said he wants to respond to the matter when he is ready.
In another news, the former Senate president Bukola Saraki has indicated that some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will soon switch to the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
In a presentation on Arise News, Saraki suggested that some of the top APC chieftains leaders would defect towards the 2023 general election, saying the big boys did not make moves at an early stage.
We expect defectors from the ruling party. If you follow the guidelines, you will understand that some of the big players don't cross carpet early; they make their moves very late in the game; so keep paying attention, he said.
The PDP itself had seen certain leaders fall in favor of the ruling APC so they defected.
State governors such as Ben Ayade of Cross River, Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state have switched over to the ruling party.