PDP May Die If It Loses 2023 Polls, Atiku Warns
Vondigest reports that despite the clamour for President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor to emerge from the South, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has intensified his efforts to pick the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He met on Tuesday with members of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) and fired a warning that the former ruling party may die if it fails to win next year’s general election.
In a meeting lasting several hours behind closed doors at the Yar’Adua Center in Abuja, the presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 elections sought the buy-in of the party elders for his ambition, telling them that he represents the best chance for the PDP to return to power.
He, therefore, urged them to give him another opportunity to advance what he called his ideas for uniting the nation.
Before the meeting went into a closed door session, Atiku expressed concern that if the PDP does not win the 2023 election, it will remain in opposition for another eight years and might even become extinct as he observed that Nigerians usually gravitate towards power.
He said: “As one of the speakers said, I am worried and you should be worried too that if we do not win, it means we will be in opposition again for the next eight years. By the next eight years, I don’t know how many were left in politics and it may even ultimately lead to the death of the party because people gravitate, particularly in developing countries, towards governments.
“Ordinary people naturally gravitate towards the government. So, this is a very, very crucial and historical moment in history, for our survival. I want you to think about it.”
This online platform understands that the former Vice President debunked assertions that the PDP is shying away from its zoning principle, noting that it was because of the implementation of the policy that the South has enjoyed more years in power than the North under the former ruling party.
According to him, he believes in building bridges, which he said, informed his decision to choose southeastern politicians as his presidential running mates on two occasions.
Source – Tribune
