{"id":18908,"date":"2022-05-29T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odidiomo.com\/news\/?p=18908"},"modified":"2022-05-29T05:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T05:47:54","slug":"breaking-atiku-floors-wike-saraki-others-clinches-pdp-presidential-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odidiomo.com\/news\/breaking-atiku-floors-wike-saraki-others-clinches-pdp-presidential-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Atiku floors Wike, Saraki others, clinches PDP presidential ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facts emerged on Saturday night that northern elders were behind the emergence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku won the primary by 371 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, who poled 237 votes, while a former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, scored 70 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State got 38 votes; Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, scored 20 votes; a former Senate President, Pius Anyim, got 14 votes, while a former President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Sam Ohuabunwa, polled only one vote.<\/p>\n<p>The northern elders\u2019 intervention was said to have led to the withdrawal of the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, and a former Managing Director of FSB International Bank, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, from the race.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders met with the aspirants from the northern part of the country on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Led by a former National Security Adviser, Gen Aliyu Gusau (retd.), and a former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, the leaders went into the crucial meeting to try and reduce the number of northern aspirants to one.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that the northern leaders insisted that a particular candidate from the southern part of the country should not be allowed to win the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts emerged on Saturday night that northern elders were behind the emergence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. 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