The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee to prune down the number of its presidential aspirants, ahead of the 2019 poll.

The decision to trim the list of aspirants was disclosed by the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) Senator Walid Jibrin.

He disclosed this to newsmen after an emergency meeting in Abuja, yesterday.

Jibrin said the PDP BoT resolved that henceforth, no member should campaign for any of the party’s presidential hopeful.

“If you are member of the BoT, you remain as BoT member and conscience of the party. They should not move about with any aspirant. If we are really the conscience of the party, we should not move about with aspirants.

“That was what happened during the last national convention when we elected the national chairman. Some of us went and pitched camp with aspirants, taking them all over the place.

“This time, we will not allow that to happen. Anyone of us who moves about with any aspirant should resign from the BoT.

“We are the ones who will settle the complaints; if there are any. But, if we are involved, it will not be fair. So, we have told members not to campaign with the aspirants,” Jibrin stated.
The BoT chairman added that at the moment, there are 13 presidential aspirants who have indicated interest to contest for the PDP ticket.

He said there are efforts to prune down the number; ahead of the party’s primary and also, disclosed that a committee has been set up to interface with all the aspirants, with the view of getting some of them to withdraw from the contest.

•Excerpted from a Daily Sun report