Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has urged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Board of Trustees (BoT) to support his 2023 Presidential ambition.
The 2019 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in a consultative meeting with the BoT on Tuesday in Abuja said, ‘In 2023 it is either we retire together or we move on together”
He said: “Very many of you were part of our political successes in 1998 – 99 and also, many of you were part of the success story of the government, PDP government 1999 to 2007”, insisting that no administration, had made as much achievement as the PDP.
“What I’m saying is based on facts, take any aspect of our growth whether it is economy, whether it is healthcare, whether it is agriculture, whether it is education, the landmark achievements we made in 1999 to 2007 have not been matched by any subsequent administration.
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“Your excellences, friends, brothers and sisters, we are now at a crucial moment in this country. Many of you here, it is either we retire together or we move on together”.
He expressed worry that the party ”will be in opposition again for the next eight years if it does not win the election. By the next eight years, I don’t know how many will be left in politics and it may even ultimately lead to the death of the party because people gravitate, particularly in developing countries, towards governments.
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The presidential hopeful who described the 2023 Presidential election as a “very crucial and historical moment” for their survival noted that “people have not stopped talking about power rotation and zoning, or whatever it is. For sure in the party, we invented and formulated this zoning policy simply because we wanted every part of this country to have a sense of belonging and I have paid my dues on the issue of zoning.
He added that “therefore, you cannot come and try to imply that the PDP has not been following the zoning policy. The many years of the PDP government, eight years and six years all of them were from the south.
