President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) has been endorsed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as their consensus presidential candidate.

The party signed a statement in Abuja on Thursday, the SDP's Director of Media and Publicity, Yemi Akinbode made the statement available to NAN, said: "The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has resolved to adopt President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajoof of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as candidate of our party for the 2019 presidential election.

"Members of the SDP are enjoined to vote for President Buhari at the presidential level only.

"We therefore, feel that it is imperative to technically withdraw from the presidential election and focus on the National Assembly, governorship and state assembly elections, for which we have fielded candidates across country."