In the midst of the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Walid Jibrin, the party’s immediate past chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), announced on Friday that he will remain in the party and will do so until Atiku becomes President of Nigeria in 2023.
Senator Walid Jibrin, the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), resigned from his position on August 7, 2020.
Although political observers believed Mr Jibrin’s resignation came amid calls for the party’s leadership structure to be restructured to balance the party’s current lopsidedness in favour of the north, he argued that his decision to resign was made to ensure victory for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the PDP in general.
In a statement he issued on Friday, Senator Walid Jibrin said despite his resignation as BoT chairman, he remains an active BoT member for life.
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Senator Walid, while thanking the party for appointing him the state chairman of the presidential campaign council, called on PDP and Nigerians to vote for Atiku in 2023.
“For appointing me the chairman of the Nasarawa State presidential campaign council, I want to sincerely thank the state PDP chairman and his entire exco, the elders, the caucus, and the entire PDP members in the state for giving me this very important assignment,” he said, adding that the appointment will no doubt protect and strengthen the party given my involvement with the party since its inception in 1998.
He stated that he was a true party man from the unit, ward, local, zone, and state where he served as party leader, and that he served as national ex-officio, member NWC, deputy national financial secretary, national financial secretary, member NWC, BoT member, acting BoT secretary, confirmed BoT secretary, acting BoT national chairman, and acting BoT national chairman,and finally BoT chairman the conscious of the party.
“ I want to assure you all that despite my resignation as BoT chairman, I still remain an active Board of Trustees member for life (BoT),” he said
