2023: Atiku Returns Home for the First Time Since He Became PDP Aspirant, Reveals His Agenda

2023: Atiku Returns Home for the First Time Since He Became PDP Aspirant, Reveals His Agenda

  • The PDP presidential aspirant in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has visited his home state since he clinched the party's ticket
  • During his visit, the ex-vice president said his primary agenda is to serve Nigerians while calling for unity within the party
  • Atiku, who was received by a crowd of people in Yola, urged the electorates in the state to consolidate on the privilege he had always gotten from them in his 30 years of the political career

Yola, Adamawa - The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has returned to his home state, Adamawa, for the first time since he became the party's flagbearer.

The former vice president, on his return, said his only agenda was to serve Nigerians, Daily Trust reported.

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Atiku spoke in Yola on Monday, August 15, where he received thousands of the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters who decamped to the PDP.

The presidential candidate of the umbrella party promises to address the challenges facing this country if elected.

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This will be the first time the ex-vice president will visit the state since his emergence as the PDP candidate in the 2023 election.

He asked the state's people to consolidate on the support he had gotten from them throughout his 30-year political career.

He also called for unity within the party.

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Legit.ng earlier reported that the crisis in the PDP is getting wider day by day, and the efforts of the leadership of the party to reconcile the party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state seemed futile.

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The news of Wike challenging the victory of Atiku in court, though Wike has denied knowing anything about the suit, it is still a strong indication that all is not well within the PDP.

No doubt, Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman of the party, is the villain of the narrative as he has refused to honour his word, before his emergence, that he would step down if a northern presidential candidate emerges.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng