- The presidential candidate of the MAJA party, Professor Mercy Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies wants Atiku to step down for her
- She said Atiku should step down for her on the account of age and being a woman
- According to her, the odd favours young candidates for the 2019 general elections
The presidential candidate of the MAJA party, Professor Mercy Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has asked former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to step down for her.
The female presidential aspirant said since her party and the PDP are members of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), there is the need for the emergence of a candidate for the coalition.
She stated that Atiku should step down for her on the account of age and being a woman, saying that the odd favours young candidates for the 2019 general elections.
She added that since men have ‘failed’ Nigeria, they should give women a chance to emerge as the nation’s next president and return the country back to the path of progress.
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The MAJA presidential candidate made the call on Monday, October 15, when she received students on courtesy call on her on the World Student’s Day celebration.
Her words: “I will in fact seize this opportunity to appeal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to kindly step down for me at the CUPP as President Buhari of APC steps aside, because this time indeed is a-woman-youth-academician ticket and a tip to the Middle-belt Christian Nigeria currently bearing all the brunt of killings in the north and that is where I come in.
“We are losing our children and husbands, the women are crying, the youths dying and the men should obliged us for once in 2019 to manage it.
“You can trust that I’ll seek the ideal international assistance to end insecurity in Nigeria as a woman (a man with a womb) by the grace of God Almighty. Sincerely speaking, our men have failed us and we women and the youths should be given the opportunity as we are all in trouble in Nigeria.”
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Meanwhile, election observer group, YIAGA Africa Watching The Vote (WTV) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make public its report on the monitoring of political parties’ primaries held recently in preparations for the 2019 general elections.
The group made the demand on Thursday, October 11, in Abuja, during a press briefing on the conduct of political party primaries for the 2019 general elections.
Speaking at the briefing, Ezenwa Nwagwu, co-chair, WTV working group, and Cynthia Mbamalu, project director, YIAGA Africa WTV, raised issues around exclusion of youth and women, high cost of nomination forms, vote buying and selling, access and transparency. open flouting of party guidelines, INEC guidelines as well as the Electoral Act.
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