Controversy yesterday trailed comments of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who reportedly advised Northerners to reject Yoruba or Ibo candidacy in the 2023 polls.
• Tinubu, Obi sell candidacy to Northern leadersAtiku was responding to questions posed by Northern leaders during the Arewa joint committee interactive session, comprising Arewa Consultative Forum , Northern Elders’ Forum , Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Jam’iyyar Matan Arewa, Arewa Research and Development Project and other bodies’ parley with presidential candidates at the Arewa House, on Saturday.
“His ambition has already destroyed the PDP and pushed it from number one to third if not fourth force. Now, he wants to bring the same division into the affairs of the country. We ask Nigerians to say no by rejecting him stoutly at the polls,” Ohanaeze said. It noted: “If, as Atiku believes, the average Northerner needs a Northern president now, after the eight-year tenure of a Northern president, when will they ever not need a Northern president? What does Atiku think the average Southerner needs?
“In answering this question, Atiku started with a joke by addressing the questioner as ‘Mr. Northerner’ which is a veiled criticism of why he limited his question to the Northern audience in the first place. “On the same day when Atiku stood agile and cerebral before his hosts at the Arewa House, the APC candidate whose only entitlement for president is because of an ethnic identity claim was also at a public function in Kaduna and publicly embarrassed his host, Governor Nasir el-Rufai, by saying that he should not contemplate pursuing higher educational qualifications and likening him to ‘a rotten case that has turned into a bad situation.
The programme, which started on Saturday, was by Atiku, Kola Abiola of Peoples Redemption Party and Adewale Adeboye of Social Democratic Party .
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