Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, suffered a gaffe while speaking at the party’s campaign rally in Plateau state.

The rally was held at the Rwang Pam township stadium in Jos, the Plateau capital.

Atiku, while concluding his speech in Hausa, said: “For God’s sake and for the value of this place, ensure that you vote for A… I mean PDP this time around”.

The PDP candidate also promised his supporters in Plateau that if the party is elected in the 2023 elections, peace will return to the state.

“Yesterday, when we finished with Nasarawa successfully, I was told ‘let’s go back to Abuja’, and I said I won’t go back to Abuja because here is also my home and I have a house here. We came and slept in it,” he said.

“What I want you to understand is that we’ve made a promise that if you vote for PDP, which I’m sure you would, we promise to bring back peace in Plateau.

“We will bring development in Plateau, especially for the youths who are the ones I’m seeing here mostly. All of you, men and women, we will ensure that we boost the economy of Plateau state so that jobs and business opportunities will be provided.

“This is a promise we have made to you. Also, most of your roads, we are aware of their bad condition because the government of the APC hasn’t done anything about it for the past eight years. We promise to fix the roads.

“Therefore, people of Plateau, this place has its history. In this place, we voted MKO Abiola; in this place, we voted Olusegun Obasanjo; we voted for different presidents in this place.”

Abubakar, who had earlier defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), had rejoined the PDP in December 2017.

Meanwhile, the PDP presidential candidate’s gaffe comes weeks after a similar incident involving Bola Tinubu of the APC, which also occurred at the same stadium.

While addressing supporters at the Plateau rally, Tinubu, APC presidential candidate, had said “God bless PD… APC”.

Interestingly, Tinubu’s gaffe also occurred on a Tuesday.


https://www.thecable.ng/extra-atiku-suffers-gaffe-says-vote-for-a-i-mean-pdp/amp

Old age

At 79 years, Atiku is really old and should return to Dubai to rest.

Atiku please go and rest no presidentship for you

Thread won’t make front page since it’s not Tinubu.

seunmsg:
Thread won’t make front page since it’s not Tinubu.

Na anti-Tinubu threads dey generate traffic na. Who cares about Atiku!

donphilopus:


Na anti-Tinubu threads dey generate traffic na. Who cares about Atiku!

When Tinubu made exactly the same slip in the same Jos, over twenty threads were opened and about three different threads on the same issue was pushed to front page. Thisday newspaper made it their banner headline for two days. Today, no one is even talking about it. Nairaland mods have ignored it and Thisday is completely silent about it.

So, how’s this free press? Why attack a candidate unfairly and protect another? Over 50% of politics section threads are dedicated to fake news and propaganda against Tinubu and yet, nothing is done about it.

Old people won't let this country move forward.

seunmsg:


When Tinubu made exactly the same slip in the same Jos, over twenty threads were opened and about three different threads on the same issue was pushed to front page. Thisday newspaper made it their banner headline for two days. Today, no one is even talking about it. Nairaland mods have ignored it and Thisday is completely silent about it.

So, how’s this free press? Why attack a candidate unfairly and protect another? Over 50% of politics section threads are dedicated to fake news and propaganda against Tinubu and yet, nothing is done about it.

Exactly. When a candidate is unduly attacked regularly by these elements, just know such candidate has the brightest chance of winning the election. So their regular attacks don't bother me anymore.

Picture 1 was ThisDay's headline a day after Tinubu's rally in Jos while 2 is their today's headline.