The Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council has told Nigerians to reject the presidential ambition of the PDP’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar because he is an irredeemable ethnic bigot.
“In a speech at the Interactive Session with Arewa Joint Committee on Saturday in Kaduna, Atiku who flagrantly breached the power rotation code of his party to snatch the party ticket from a southern candidate, said he should be the person to be voted for, rather than a Yoruba or Igbo candidate.
”Doubling down in his now infamous speech, Atiku said: “What the average Northerner needs is somebody who is from the north and also understands that part of the country and has been able to build bridges across the country. This is what the Northerner needs, it doesn’t need a Yoruba or Igbo candidate. I stand before you as a Pan-Nigerian of northern origin.”
The council added that “we are not surprised by his desperate position. Atiku has resorted to whipping up ethnic sentiments, knowing that his chances of being elected have become a mirage. The council said Nigerian public now knew better that a man who has been campaigning as a so-called unifier of disparate groups, is a tribal jingoist, who has now totally eviscerated all pretensions to being a detribalised Nigerian.
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