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Fresh trouble hits Atiku over anti-Yoruba, Igbo comment

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has been criticised for advising Northerners to vote for him in the 2023 election because he is from the northern region.

During an interactive session with the Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna on Saturday, Atiku advised his audience not to back a Yoruba or Igbo candidate. He was referring to the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi of the Labour Party.Infomation Guide Nigeria


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The PDP presidential nominee, a Fulani from Adamawa State, stated, “What the typical Northerner needs is someone who is from the North, understands that region of the country, and has been able to develop bridges throughout the nation.

“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 ex-vice-president stated in a viral video.

The APC, the LP, the New Nigeria People’s Party, the Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere, the apex Igbo group Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and civil society organisations have all condemned his statement.

This is occurring against the backdrop of the PDP crisis, which has resulted in the departure of five governors and a large number of party members from Atiku’s campaign committee.

There are suspicions that the former Vice President may have violated Section 97 of the Electoral Act with his Saturday statement.

The section states, “A candidate, person or association that engages in campaigning or broadcasting based on religious, tribal or sectional reason to promote or oppose a particular political party or the election of a particular candidate, commits an offence under this Act and is liable on conviction to (a) a maximum fine of N1m or imprisonment for a term of 12 months or both and (b) in the case of a political party, to a maximum of N10m.’’

Those who challenged Atiku on Sunday asserted that, while presenting himself as a pan-Nigerian candidate, the former vice-prior president’s acts raised questions about his stance on crucial national issues.

In May, Atiku sparked a commotion when he deleted a message on his Facebook and Twitter sites criticising the death of Deborah Samuel, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education who was killed for allegedly tweeting comments that blasphemed Prophet Mohammed.

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After receiving a deluge of death threats from northerners who demanded he abandon his presidential ambitions for criticising Samuel’s murder, Atiku hastily erased the tweet, claiming it was published without his consent.

The ruling APC stated that Atiku’s call for northern voters to reject Igbo and Yoruba candidates was unbecoming of a senior politician.

In a statement released on Sunday, Felix Morka, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, characterised Atiku’s remarks as an assault on the nation’s long-standing national unity.

He ascribed the statement to the PDP candidate’s desire to govern the nation.

Scolding Atiku who is running for the President for the sixth time, the APC stated, “It is beyond the pale for a senior citizen and a former Vice-President of the Federal Republic to so brazenly instigate strife and disunity in our country in pursuit of his befuddled political self-interest.

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“But it is not surprising coming from a desperate and serial failed candidate for the office of President. If, as Atiku believes the average Northerner needs a Northern President now, after a Northern President, when will they ever not need a Northern President?

“What does Atiku think the average Southerner needs? Why is it about what the average Northerner needs, or even what the average Southerner may need? Why is it not about what Nigeria and Nigerians need? Nigerians need bold and visionary leadership anchored on a firm commitment to transcendental national unity, over and above ethnic or sectional obsessions.Jamb Result 

“Atiku’s words ring loud of extreme and mindless desperation and such an extremely desperate man cannot and must not be entrusted with the most important job of President – a job whose core duty is that of leading, uniting and working in the best interest of all in an ethnoreligious, pluralistic society as Nigeria. Our country does not need this kind of highly inflammable rhetoric now or ever.’’

The party further expressed surprise that Atiku who claimed to be on a mission to unify the country could engage in acts that undermined national unity.

The cat has finally been let out of the bag of him that pays lip service to unity while working hard to undermine our national unity. Our Northern citizens and patriots know far better than what Atiku thinks, and will not walk down that slippery slope with him,’’ Morka noted.

Touting the credential of its presidential candidate, Tinubu, and contrasting it with Atiku’s statement, the ruling party noted, ‘’As governor of Lagos State, his executive cabinet was a rare and admirable reflection of ethnic and religious diversity.

‘’We are confident he will enthrone equity, fairness, inclusion, and unity as operating national policy when elected as President in next year’s general election, as we urge Nigerians to do.’’

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