Mild Drama as Atiku Avoids Endorsing Gubernatorial Candidate in Powerful APC Gov’s State
- The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has taken his political gospel to top APC governors state
- This is as the campaign team as well as Atiku and PDP chieftains rally support for the former vice president in Kano state
- Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Atiku during the campaign rally refuses to endorse any governorship candidate
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, February 9th, took his campaign rally to Kano state.
During the rally, Atiku reiterated his plans to reopen the borders, restore peace, and ensure agriculture and industrial revolutions, among others, Daily Trust report confirmed.
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Atiku avoids endorsing any candidate
However, a major highlight of the rally was the conspicuous avoidance by Atiku and the party hierarchy to endorse either of the party’s two parallel gubernatorial candidates, with the absence of the usual handing over of the party flag to the party’s gubernatorial candidate on the agenda of the rally.
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Legit.ng gathered that the party in Kano state has been engulfed in a leadership crisis that culminated in the emergence of two parallel gubernatorial candidates – Mohammad Abacha and Sadiq Wali.
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Why Atiku did not endorse any candidate
During the presidential campaign rally of the party at the Sani Abacha stadium, it was observed that both candidates were together with Atiku on the stage but the former Vice President did not make reference to either of them nor raise the hands of either of them while addressing the crowd.
A source among the party’s hierarchy, who asked not to be named, told our correspondent that the party was being careful especially as it was expecting the Supreme Court to rule on the issue on Friday, February 9th.
“We don’t want Atiku to raise the hands of Abacha today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday), Supreme Court will say it is Wali that is our candidate,” he said.
2023 Presidency: Fresh Headache for APC as Yoruba Leaders Shun Tinubu, Berate Obi, Declare Support for Atiku
A socio-cultural group of Yoruba leaders under the aegis of the Yoruba Elders’ Union (YEU) declared support for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
The Yoruba leaders urged all well-meaning Nigerians to vote for the former two-term Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria during the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
YEU decided to support Atiku’s candidature at a meeting in Lagos on Tuesday, February 7, 2023.
Presidency: Intrigues as Atiku's Campaigner Condemns Peter Obi, Commends Tinubu
Reno Omokri, one of the prominent chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a strong supporter of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, has pulled some stunts.
Omokri took to his Twitter page on Wednesday evening to state that if Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential flagbearer, could not lift people out of poverty when he was the governor of Anambra, how would he do that at the national level?
The former presidential aide then declared that if Bola Tinubu, the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had said that, Nigerians would have fallen for it.
Source: Legit.ng
