Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) presidential candidate Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmed on Thursday said his party was ready to field a unanimous candidate along with the opposition and the ruling PML-N provided the body designated to finalise the names of candidates be impartial.
Addressing a briefing at PTI office, the former judge claimed that the Supreme Court, by setting July 30 as a new date for presidential polls, had foiled several money-making plans the experts of corruption were ready to practice.
He explained that the constitution allows the parliamentarians to vote for any contender on merit, even against their party’s candidate.
Flanked by lawmakers Dr Arif Alvi, Samar Ali Khan, Jamal Siddiqui and Dawa Khan Sabir, Ahmed said the nation needed an honest person as the president who might promote good governance so as to liberate the Supreme Court from the duty of taking frequent suo mottu notices.
To a question, he said, “Those who used to raise slogans of roti, kapra aur makaan had snatched the people’s right to live. It seems as if PPP leaders are considering themselves as the ruling party. PPP neither contacted us being an opposition party nor discussed the nomination of Mian Raza Rabbani.”
To another question, he said, “PTI would not boycott the polls and the parties that are attempting to refuse the judgement of Supreme Court are in the wrong.”
He suggested the Election Commission of Pakistan to consider the option of giving 60 days so that the candidates may get enough time to present themselves in parliament.
