Former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Bamanga Tukur, has described prominent 2023 governorship aspirants in Delta State and entrepreneur, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, as presidential material.
Dr Tukur, a one-time governor and minister for industries in the 1990s, stated this when he played host to Gbagi in London to confer on issues of national interest and growth of the party.
“In your rights, you are a presidential material; so I want you to bear in mind your entrepreneurial acumen as a provider of employment across the country in whatever position you do in life.
“I also commend you for seeking the office of governor of your state, Delta State, which I know is to render quality service to your people.
“I, however, urge you as you have done all these years not to leave the party and do more to see that the party becomes a uniting platform for all stakeholders and continue to deliver good governance to the citizens,” Tukur noted.
The industrialist enjoined the fourth estate of the realm “to stand up in holding into account leaders who have done the right things by praising them and reporting as it is those who are committing crimes and doing the wrong things for citizens to evaluate.”
Chief Gbagi, a criminologist, lawyer and former Minister of State for Education, in response, thanked the elder statesman for firmly standing for justice, equity and opening doors for Africans in Diaspora.
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