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Our presidential campaigns will be issue-based - PDP

Our presidential campaigns will be
issue-based - PDP

3 Dec, 2018

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said its north-west
presidential zonal rally scheduled for Monday,
December 3, in Sokoto, would focus on issues that
would pave way for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s victory at
the polls.

Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, Director, Media and Publicity,
PDP Presidential Campaign Council, said this in a
statement on Sunday in Abuja, the News Agency of
Nigeria reports.

Ologbondiyan said the campaign would also address
the concerns, plights, fears and aspirations of citizens
in the geo-political zone.

He said the decision to stay within the purview of
issues that concerned citizens and the nation was in
line with the party’s presidential candidate’s policy
document.

The Spokesman said the council would use the rally to
meet the electorate at the grassroots and to interface
with leaders in that geo-political zone.

He said Abubakar had demonstrated an unrivaled
competence and political will to re-position the nation
for national cohesion and economic prosperity.

“Finally the campaign appreciates the entire people of
the North-West geo-political zone and Nigerians in
general for the unprecedented outpouring of goodwill,
prayers and support for Abubakar,” he said.

Legit.ng earlier reported that former vice president
and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
in the forthcoming presidential election, Atiku
Abubakar, appointed Phrank Shuaibu and three youths
including a woman as his aides.

The media adviser to Atiku, Paul Ibe, confirmed this in
a statement to newsmen on Sunday, December 2, in
Abuja.

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