A former
Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday formally declared his intention to
run for president at the 2019 general elections.
He made the declaration in Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, a report monitored on Channels Television said.
Mr. Abubakar was vice president
between 1999 and 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In December, he dumped the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC) and returned to the PDP. Mr. Abubakar said he
was on a mission to put Nigeria on the path of growth and set if free from the
path of “serial failure” foisted on it by the ruling party.
According to him, since APC came
to power about three years ago, it had destroyed all the major sectors,
especially education, health and infrastructural sectors through inadequate
budgetary allocations and releases.
“Since 2015, we have not seen a
100 kilometres road constructed by the APC federal government anywhere in the
country. I have never seen Nigeria so divided along religious, ethnic and
regional lines, as a result of the mismanagement of the APC.”
He said he chose to make his
presidential intention to run for president public in Rivers State because he
believes Governor Nyesom Wike was the live wire of the party.
Mr. Abubakar was in Rivers State
with some of his supporters, including a former National Chairman of the PDP,
Okwesilieze Nwodo, a former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, a former
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, and a former
senator, Abdul Ningi.
Responding, Mr. Wike noted that
Mr. Abubakar was one aspirant feared by the APC.
He however said contrary to what
the former vice president said, all genuine members of the PDP were its live
wire.
The
governor said the PDP was prepared to oust the APC from power in order to
rescue Nigeria from the maladministration foisted on Nigerians by the Buhari
administration.
Stating that the chances of the
PDP in the 2019 elections were bright, Mr Wike asked PDP members not to
jeopardise those chances.
“Every presidential aspirant must
see himself as a member of the larger PDP family,” he said.
“We must do everything to ensure
that PDP returns to the Presidential Villa in 2019.
“Only one aspirant will become a
candidate. We will do everything to ensure that the party comes out with a
candidate that has a track record to upstage the APC.”
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