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By Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has said he is contesting for the office of the president in 2023 to save the Nigeria from total disintegration.
Tambuwal, who was in Gusau on Monday, the Zamfara State capital, in continuation of his consultation, said the country was currently a sinking ship that needed a competent leader to save it from total collapse.
He said that he left his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015 when he was the Speaker of the House of Representatives and joined the All Progressives Congress due to the security challenges during the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
According to him, he returned to the PDP in 2018 when he realised that the APC government was worse than the Jonathan administration.
“I left the PDP and joined APC in 2015 where we campaigned for Buhari because we thought that he had the potential to fight the insecurity issues and other challenges bedevilling the nation. But unfortunately, he cannot make things work as we expected.
“That was why I also decided to dump the APC and return my former party, the PDP in 2018,” the government said.
He called on PDP members to give him the chance, saying: “By the grace of God, I will do my best to make sure that the party takes over the country come 2023 elections.”