Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has declared his intentions to begin consultations to contest for president in 2023.
The governor stated this while responding to calls by stakeholders and members of his party in the state who endorsed him to be the candidate of the party.
He said he will begin consultations across the country before declaring his intention to the general public by the end of February 2022.
Earlier, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sokoto State chapter has endorsed the candidature of the state governor as the next president of the country.
Rising from a stakeholders meeting at the party secretariat in the state, a former deputy governor of the state, Barrister Mukhtar Shagari, called on Governor Tambuwal to declare his interest in the presidency.