Dino Melaye who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and also part of the party stakeholders has noted that the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is definitely at home with all the genders, the tribes and the faiths in Nigerian.
He had also noted that Abubakar Atiku actually has the balm with which to heal Nigerians of all their pains if elected president and he had also disclosed this in a statement which he had signed and issued on Monday.
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And according to the former Kogi West Senator, all Nigerians cannot afford to gamble in 2023 by making the wrong choice.
The statement reads partly: “As a consummate political strategist, an engaging listener, a disarming deployer of a charm offensive and a beacon of hope, Atiku, who bears the flag of PDP, has commenced his campaign, moving round and dispensing the assurance that the years of the locusts are over.
“As a politician who is at home everywhere in Nigeria, Atiku demonstrated his universal home connection by flagging off his Presidential campaign in Uyo on October 10, 2022.
“Nigeria can not afford to gamble this time; by making a wrong choice.”
This is coming when Atiku is being criticized over his remark dubbed as sectional on Saturday.
Speaking in Kaduna, Atiku had said Nigeria needs a pan-Nigerian president and not a Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa-Fulani leader and the controversial remark had also drawn the irk of some political stakeholders across the country.
In a related report, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has described his counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar as a ‘tribal jingoist’.
While reacting to the comment credited to Atiku that Nigerians need a pan-African president, not a Yoruba, Igbo, or Northern leader, Tinubu said such was the ‘worst expression of ethnocentric opportunism’ the former Vice President ever made.
Tinubu stressed that Atiku’s tribalism was responsible for PDP’s leadership crisis.
His remark was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, on Sunday.