"Presidency Is Not Personal Thing": Atiku Speaks on 2027
- Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president, has said that he was not eager to be Nigerian president, but more interested in seeing a working country
- The former president made the comment while receiving some members of the PDP and the Labour Party into the ADC
- Atiku and other opposition leaders recently resigned their membership from the PDP and formed a coalition where the ADC was adopted to their political platform ahead of 2027
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said he is more interested in Nigeria getting better than being a president.
The former vice president made this known while speaking at the affirmative ceremony organised for new defectors into the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Lagos on Saturday, August 23.
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PDP, LP members join ADC in Lagos
According to The Vanguard, some members of the PDP and the Labour Party dumped their parties for the ADC at the ceremony. Atiku, who was the guest speaker at the event, was represeted by Professor Ola Olateju of the Achiever University, Owo, in Ondo State.
The former PDP presidential candidate recently resigned his membership from the leading opposition party for the ADC. He did that along with other opposition leaders.
Atiku maintained that he was not in desperation to become Nigerian president but his eagerness was to see a better, prosperous and secure Nigeria.
Prof Olateju's comment reads in part:
“It’s not a personal thing for him, and that’s why some of us are with him. It’s not about Atiku having to be president at all costs."
Coalition adopts ADC as its political platform
The ADC was recently adopted by the coalition of opposition leaders as their political platform ahead of the 2027. The coalition movement was started by the former vice president, who was of the view that only a united opposition can defeat President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Alhaji Sule Lamido, the former governor of Jigawa and a chieftain of the PDP, recently commented that if the opposition coalition presents a wrong presidential candidate for the 2027 election, they would be broken by President Bola Tinubu.
Lamido, in an interview, said the movement "is largely a coalition of individuals", which cannot be compared to the coalition of 2014 that brought the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to power in 2015.
The former governor explained that the 2014 coalition was a coming together of strong political institutions, citing the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) under Tinubu, ex-President Muhammadu Buhari's Congress of Progressive Change (CPC), adding that they were cohesive, organised and organic institutions.
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EFCC declares Atiku's son-in-law wanted
Legit.ng earlier rported that the EFCC has declared Abdullahi Bashir-Haske, a son-in-law to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a businessman, wanted.
According to the anti-graft agency, the businessman is to answer questions on money laundering and criminal conspiracy allegations.
Appealing to the public for help in locating Bashir-Haske, the EFFC said he was last seen at his residences in Ikoyi and Victoria Island, Lagos.
Source: Legit.ng
