Atiku – I Assume I Have Support Of Obasanjo For 2023 Presidency
Previous Vice President and official competitor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that he doesn’t know however he expects that previous President Olusegun Obasanjo is on the side of his official aspiration.
Atiku, who made the attestation during a selective meeting with Arise TV on Friday morning, which was observed by SaharaReporters, said he has been chatting with his previous chief however has not visited him after his development as the PDP official candidate.The PDP official competitor who was inquired as to whether he wants Obasanjo’s help said, “For what reason will I not need his help? He was my previous chief. For what reason will I not need his help? Obviously I will require his help. I expect I have it.”
Atiku said that he actually holds the previous president’s inheritance in high regard.
Then again, Atiku while talking on the issue of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said he is now contacting the lead representative and that partners of PDP will before long accommodate with the distressed Wike.
“We are contacting Governor Wike and we are conversing with him and I accept very soon we will track down a compromise. Very soon, on the grounds that we are conversing with him, as a matter of fact.
“We are conversing with his lead representative associates. I’m extremely hopeful we will determine our interior emergency and continue on,” Atiku said.
He said that Governor Wike is a persuasive lawmaker who has a decent future in Nigerian governmental issues and has contributed a lot to the development of the party, adding that he (Atiku) didn’t dismiss Wike as a running mate.
He said, “Lead representative Wike was not dismissed, no one was dismissed in the party yet the fact is you should comprehend, it is the privilege of the contender to pick his running mate, the running mate he accepts he can work with genially and afterward additionally convey the strategies of the party and furthermore attempt to bring together the country.
“Lead representative Wike is a splendid legislator, he’s valiant and persistent. I accept he has a future in the political development of this nation, so it’s anything but an issue of dismissal, positively not. I believe it’s too cruel a word to say that we dismissed Governor Wike, unquestionably not.”
Atiku, who noticed that individuals appear to be not to be reasonable for him said, “The panel that was set up at my own example pondered. There was no vote, and they suggested three names, since they realized picking anybody of the three was my right. Thus, there was no vote. It’s false.
“Lead representative Ortom himself led that advisory group. He realized there was no vote taken, and I have the report of that advisory group. The panel suggested three individuals and I picked one. I didn’t leave that suggestion. Thus, I figure individuals ought to be reasonable for me and ought to likewise express the reality.”
There have been complaints which produced inner emergency in the party after Atiku picked Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate.
Remarking on the character of Governor Okowa and whether he would have still have picked previous Governor of Anambra State and official competitor of the Labor Party, Peter Obi, he had not left the PDP, Atiku depicted Okowa as a canny man with wide insight, “From being a bad habit director to a chief, then, at that point, to congressperson and presently a lead representative.”
On Peter Obi, Atiku said, “Indeed, he didn’t actually counsel me prior to joining the Labor Party. I think it was three days after he declared his joining of the Labor Party that he informed me.”