Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has flagged off a sort of presidential campaign and has called on Governor Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state to support him.
According to Daily Trust, Atiku made his intention known on Tuesday, March 27 in Port Harcourt.
Atiku Abubakar and Nyesom Wike. Credit: Daily Trust
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Atiku was accompanied to the state by former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel; former governor of Enugu State and one-time national chairman of the PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo; deputy majority leader of the Senate, Senator Abdul Ningi; Senator Lee Ledogo Maeba; former minister of justice and attorney-general, Michael Aondoakaa.
Atiku asked for the support of the PDP in Rivers. Credit: Daily Trust
According to Vanguard, the former vice president said he is “on a mission to set the country on the path of growth in the state of “serial failure” of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government.”
Atiku claimed “the APC Federal Government has destroyed the nation’s education, health and infrastructural sectors through poor budgetary allocations and releases.
“Since 2015, we have not seen a 100kilometres constructed by the APC Federal Government anywhere in the country. I have never seen Nigeria so divided along religious, ethnic and regional lines as a result of the mismanagement of the APC”
The former vice president said it was time to end the APC's misrule. Credit: Daily Trust
In his reaction, Governor Wike said they had set their sight on removing the APC from power in 2019.
He said “Every Presidential Aspirant must see himself as a member of the larger PDP family. We must do everything to ensure that PDP returns to the Presidential Villa in 2019.
“Only one aspirant will become a candidate. We will do everything to ensure that the party comes out with a candidate that has a track record to upstage the APC”
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that former vice president Atiku Abubakar called on the PDP to work towards uniting the party after the party’s convention.
The former vice president who was a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) resigned his membership and returned to the PDP.
Atiku met former president, Goodluck Jonathan at the party’s national convention which took place on Saturday, December 9 and shared a picture of his meeting with him.
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Source: Naija.ng