2023 Presidency: Why Atiku Should Be Advised To Withdraw – Labour Party

2023 Presidency: Why Atiku Should Be Advised To Withdraw – Labour Party

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Chief Innocent Okeke, National Vice Chairman (South-East) of the Labour Party, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, should withdraw from the race and stop using “old and outdated political tricks” to hoodwink Ndigbo into supporting him.

“This trick won’t work this time,” Okeke said in response to Atiku’s recent statement in Awka, the Anambra State capital, that becoming president would be a stepping stone to becoming president of South-East extraction.

Okeke called the comment not only insensitive, but also an insult to the Igbo people. “It is unconscionable that, at a time when the country is on the verge of division due to nepotism and the dominance of a particular region in governance, as well as a yearning for unity and equity, Atiku chose to insult Ndigbo right on their doorstep.”

The LP Vice Chairman stated that asking Ndigbo to vote for an extension of the Northern-Fulani-Muslim ticket when the Igbo have yet to test the presidency since 1999 and the North has been in charge for ten years was a blatant mockery.

“The Kleptocrats at their own game always want to deceive their perceived targets with rhetorics laden with tricks.”

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The statement read in part: “Atiku is employing the old and outdated political tricks on Ndigbo. It won’t work this time round. The people are awake and tired of playing second fiddle in a country that they are a major stakeholder. While a Northern Buhari completes eight years in Aso Rock next year, had Atiku any modicum of integrity, he wouldn’t have contested for the president let alone asking votes from the South and Ndigbo particularly.

“If Atiku is not up to spite Ndigbo as he usually does, if he believes he is the stepping stone for Ndigbo to take their rightful place, why is he still in this presidential race? He claims to be a unifier whereas he defiles equity which is the most potent unifying factor in Nigeria.

“Funnily enough, Atiku is among those that designed the agreement of rotation in 1999, and has witnessed it go round and now the undisputable right of Ndigbo, why does he want to change the goalpost in the middle of a match? This is unacceptable.

“One would recall that in respect to the principle of rotation and zoning arrangement which has been instituted, no southerner and no Igbo man opposed Atiku and Buhari both of whom are from the north. It was a battle between a Northerner and another as the South patriotically watched from the sideline.

“Now it is the turn of the south and the Southeast precisely, why is Atiku contesting and at the same time coming to the East with intention to insult and mock them?”

“Ndigbo has contributed and still contributing to the present unity and success of Nigeria and doing everything possible to keep a united Nigeria. Agitations are up because of Nigeria’s reluctance to embrace equity. Any semblance of unity that exists is driven by Ndigbo. The only tribe that goes everywhere and build home, therefore it is insulting to tell such a people that you are their stepping stone to president.

“Igbo want to be president because they want to fix the Nigeria that has been damaged for over the years. They have presented one of their best whose positive record as a governor is overwhelming.

“As we look forward for a new Nigeria emerging from reality and faith, no one should take these elements that have been architects of Nigeria’s problems seriously.

“You cannot go to Kaduna and reveal that an average northerner will not vote a president from South, and repeat that average northerner will not like to vote Igbo or Yoruba, only to come to Awka and say you are a stepping stone. Who do you want to deceive?

“Atiku should be advised to withdraw from the presidential race, work on himself and purge away the old conspiracies that he and his cohorts have been using to teach their younger ones hate and disunity. This is the only practical way to be a unifier.”

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