Ibrahim Shekarau
Former governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has turned in his paper to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), indicating that he is set to run for the office of the President in the 2019 elections.
His spokesperson, Sule Ya’u Sule, who made this known today, Thursday in Kano, said that Shekarau, who was a minister of education under President Goodluck Jonathan, had already submitted a notification letter to the PDP of his intention to run.
Sule said that Shekarau has also communicated his political ambition to various elders, community leaders, opinion leaders, political associates and religious leaders regardless of their ethnic and party affiliations.
“Malam Shekarau deliberately refused to make his ambition public because he does not want the relevant stakeholders to read it for the first time on the pages of newspapers. He first notified them before making it public. He is now making necessary consultations.”
In a letter which he was said to have personally signed and sent to one of his political associates, Hassan Indabawa, dated August 22, 2017, Shekarau said that after the 2015 general elections, there had been requests by individuals and groups from different quarters urging him to contest for the presidency in 2019.
Meanwhile, the PDP’s spokesperson Dayo Adeyeye, has since confirmed that the party received Shekarau’s letter of interest.[myad]
