APC campaign council says Atiku’s 2023 bid dead due to PDP crisis

Tamarauemi Ebimini

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council says with the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the latest bid by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to become Nigeria’s president in 2023 has hit the rocks.

Bayo Onanuga, director of media and publicity of the council said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

He said by the development, Atiku deserved to be pitied as his yet another bid for the country’s presidency was slipping away.

Mr Onanuga said, “This is unraveling before our very eyes even before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) blows the whistle for electioneering campaign, his party, the PDP is in disarray.”

According to Mr Onanuga, Mr Atiku is now faced with the karma of his inordinate ambition, adding that the PDP has imploded in a battle of attrition, the result of which is predictable.

He said the ongoing ‘fraticidal’ war where a faction of the party led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, was engaging Atiku in a fight to finish, has undermined any momentum he had hoped to build.

Mr Onanuga said, “It is crystal clear that Atiku’s latest bid for Nigeria’s top job has hit the rocks, a pillar of Atiku’s campaign is the claim of being a unifier and nationalist.

“That bogus claim has now been discredited, even within his party, as the disaffected members cry for justice and inclusivity.

“Instead of the perennially running and perennially failing candidate to offer them some sop, he has rebuffed them, pleading that he could not grant their request for justice.

“Surely a man who cannot resolve a genuine dispute among his party members, who cannot forge an entente among them, cannot be expected to unify our country.”