2023: APC Chieftain Reveals What Will Cost Atiku His Last Chance At Presidency

A founding member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has claimed that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s final campaign for president of Nigeria is being hampered by the violation of the power rotation concept. This is in advance of the 2023 general elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president in the 2023 general elections is Atiku Abubakar.

Okechukwu cited the letter that the APC Northern Governors wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari on June 4, 2022, as proof that the country is meant to be united by the North and South rotating the presidency.

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He quoted the governors saying, “After careful deliberation, we wish to state our firm conviction that after eight years in office of President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the APC for 2023 election should be one of our teeming members from the southern states of Nigeria.

“It is a question of honour for the APC, an obligation that is not in anyway affected by the decisions taken by another political party. We affirm that upholding this principle is in the interest of building a stronger, more united and more progressive country.”

Okechukwu also recalled former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement on the matter: “I am very much aware that it’s the turn of the South to produce the next President of Nigeria. I was part of the meeting when the agreement was made between Northern and Southern Leaders. I am even surprised PDP gave her ticket to another North candidate.

“It will be an injustice to the South if the North retains Power after 8 years of rule.”

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It would therefore be a herculean task for Atiku to defeat the APC Northern Governors’ Forum, President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and a host of other unifier patriots like Afenifere Leader Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Governor Wike, Chief Edwin Clark, and untold numbers of unifier patriots who support the transfer of power from the North to the South, according to Okechukwu, who

“My perspective is that Atiku is not a unifier and cannot overcome the Northern Governors’ Forum, Buhari, Obasanjo, Adebanjo, Clark, and sophisticated northern electorate by his goal to win by separating the north and the south,” the Enugu State APC head continued in a press conference on Sunday.

“It is an unforced error to think that he can manipulate our fault lines and the abundance of unifier patriots of the north. The Northern electorate are very sophisticated. They voted for Zik, Abiola and Obasanjo.

“Truly, take it or leave it, Governor Nyesom Wike’s main grouse is Atiku’s violent breach of PDP’s Constitution, manipulation of Governor Aminu Tambuwal and our fault lines.

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“My bet is that the wound of Machiavellian dosage Atiku infested the PDP is not likely going to heal before 2023 presidential election.

“These unifier patriotic forces won’t allow him no matter his gusto to trample and rubbish the good works of patriots who sacrificed their presidential ambition and instituted the rotation convention in our political firmament.”

The DG VON responded to claims that Atiku may be running on the tenet that democracy confers the right to vote and be elected by the people, noting that while democracy upholds freedom as one of its tenets, Obasanjo could have appointed Sir Peter Odili as President in 2007 instead of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had others violated the rotation convention and divided the north and south.

He stated further: “Obasanjo as a unifier nationalist dropped Odili to maintain the unity of north and south. Atiku has the freedom to cherry-pick the laws and convention of his fancy; however, the truism is that Atiku is not a unifier, because he failed to adhere to federal character principle, which is our own variant of affirmative action that is observed in liberal democracy globally. This is the yard stick of measurement of character.

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“Remember that before the APC Northern Governors Forum were unifier elder statesmen – Alhaji Abubukar Remi, Umaru Shinkafi, Adamu Ciroma, Dr Sola Saraki et al, who for equity, unity, fairness and enthronement of sense of belonging dropped their presidential ambition in 1999. They placed the unity of Nigeria above self.”

Looking forward to the coming general elections, Okechukwu declared: “Please, don’t forget that we have unforgettable unification lessons. One, is that Atiku violently breached PDP’s Constitution, which expressly provided for rotation of power. This places in doubt his unifier claim.

“Secondly, he decamped to APC in 2014 on the pretext that former President Goodluck Jonathan breached power rotation to the north. Then it was the turn of the north, not now.

“Thirdly, in 2018 unifiers nationalists like Wike obliged PDP Northerners an open field, when all southerners in obedience to rotation convention did not participate in the PDP presidential primary in Port Harcourt. He was the main beneficiary.”

“Fourthly, Senators Ayu and Adamu, both northerners were elected chairmen of PDP & APC respectively anchored on the sure foot – Turn of the South.”

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He therefore challenged all unifiers and genuine democrats “to join hands and stop His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar before he divides the north and the south by rubbishing the political power rotation arrangement between the North and South, which is the bond of our unity and the health of our democracy.”

Okechukwu argued that Chief Obasanjo’s statement that a wrong outcome of the 2023 general election could consume Nigeria “is a veiled warning to the dangers of voting another northern presidential candidate to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.”

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