2023 Election: Atiku Beats Tribal Drums, Says Arewa Needs Northerner, Not Yoruba or Igbo, Video Emerges
- The presidential candidate of the PDP has beaten the tribal drums ahead of the 2023 presidential election when he told the Arewa gathering that they don't need a Yoruba or an Igbo president
- While speaking with Hausa and Fulani extractions of Nigerian in Zaria, Atiku told the gathering that they only need another northerner to take over from President Buhari, who is also from the north
- Atiku's comment is against the yearning and calls for a southern presidency in 2023, a region which has been clamouring for power rotation
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Zaria, Kaduna - Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has trolled a tribal path where he tells the Arewa community that northerners need a president that comes from the region.
According to The Cable, the former vice president made the comment on Saturday, October 15, during an interactive session of the Arewa town hall policy dialogue in Zaria, Kaduna state.
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Atiku, while addressing many Hausa and Fulani extractions of Nigerians, told the Arewa public that they don't need an Igbo or a Yoruba as president but "someone from the north."
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There has been a call for power to shift to southern Nigeria since President Muhammadu Buhari, whose tenure would end in May 2023, but Atiku, who is another northerner from Adamawa state, is doing everything to ensure he takes over from Buhari.
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Atiku said he has walked the length and breadth of Nigeria and understands the country's peculiarities and diversities.
The PDP flagbearers urged the northerners to trust him with their votes, stating that he is the most qualified candidate to be the president after Buhari.
Atiku says he is the one the northerners need
“I have traversed the whole of this country,” he said.
“I know the whole of this country. I have built bridges across this country. I think what the average northerner needs is somebody who is from the north, and who also understands the other parts of Nigeria and who has been able to build bridges across the rest of the country.
“This is what the northerner needs. He (northerner) doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate, or an Igbo candidate. This is what the northerner needs.
“I stand before you as a pan-Nigerian of northern origin.”
See the video where Atiku says that here:
2023: How karma is hunting Atiku, Wike, Ayu, and others in PDP
Legit.ng earlier reported that Karma is set to hunt the PDP and key stakeholders over their failure to honour the call for southern presidency come 2023.
The largest opposition, which is supposed to have built on the weakness of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration on security and inflation, decided to present a northern candidate against the nationalistic view.
The party had claimed that the south enjoyed more power than the north in its 16 years of rule, but nationalistically, many southerners believe power should not stay in the north after 8 years of Buhari.
Source: Legit.ng
