Atiku inspires confidence in me, and I say that without any prejudice, inducement or anticipation of personal gain.

Looking at him sef, he has the body language of leadership and action. A doer who would be decisive about issues, rather than the slow poison that is currently fouling up the air in Aso Rock. An incompetent and woeful old bastard who took six long months to appoint the most useless cabinet in Nigerian history, and is on the verge of doing an unprecedented full 4 year term without sacking a single minister or reshuffling his cabinet or even changing the useless security service chiefs! In spite of all the woes and troubles Nigeria is going through!

Best of all, Atiku is the most detribalised and liberal core northerner I know, with vast network of contacts and stakes across Nigeria. Heck, his two most well known wives are even Southern Christian women - Madam Titi is a jaiye jaiye Christian woman from Osun State, while Jennifer is from Anambra State. Nobody can accuse Atiku of being bigoted, or being a religious or ethnocentric fanatic.

I feel Nigerians must give this man a chance to acquit himself.

atiku was a civilian :under yaradua gej and buhari and non of them deemed it fit to probe to me further shows he is clean


American media says hate trump but a lot of them dont ask why should i hate trump

why should i hate atiku after FG Dangote atiku is the third employer of labour

abeg fuxk it

lilfreezy:
Nairaland polls. Who would you vote for?

Like for ATIKU

share for BUHARI

una don start abi? "Like"and "Share" crew. You people have been doing this since Edo state. ok o

AllyPolly:
I wonder where you kept all your "ideas" when you were the vice president for EIGHT YEARS.

What do you think the vice president can do?
They don't have any power o, unless presido caput

PDP please give this ticket to Atiku Abubakar let's see how he will win PMB in 2019.

ipob support Atiku?Atiku shud ask Fayose,Jonathan and jimi Agbaje.. Anything wey ipob jhudas support,nah disaster/ failure dey end am.

buhariguy:
but buhari is more better than your ineffectual buffoon and PDP for 16yrs.


Argue with your phone

Which PDP? 70 percent of the political office holders in Buhari's government were ex PDP members so who are you fooling?

AllyPolly:
I wonder where you kept all your "ideas" when you were the vice president for EIGHT YEARS.

What has Osibanjo contributed as the VP

Ebullience:
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar stood before a cheering crowd in his home state of Adamawa on Saturday, announcing he will seek the Peoples Democratic Party ticket for president next February.


Decrying the large-scale killings that have touched many parts of the country in recent months before thousands packed into Yola town square at the heart of Nigeria’s north-east, Mr Abubakar said President Muhammadu Buhari’s government would be remembered more for its bloodshed than any development it brought to citizens.

“Today, we are witnessing the most insecure atmosphere,” Mr Abubakar said of the killings largely blamed on herdsmen, bandits and militias, before promising to tackle them headlong if elected. “More people died under APC than people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Mr Abubakar told a crowd chanting “Atiku! Atiku!” shortly after 2:00 p.m. that he would curtail inflation and unemployment rate in the country, saying Mr Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress have displayed a common lack of capacity when it comes to the issues that matter to citizens the most.

“Today, we have the highest unemployment rate in history of this country, more than one million of our youth are unemployed,” Mr Abubakar said, adding that the PDP would secure the country, ensure unity and security of life and property.

He also hit Mr Buhari at one of his most vulnerable areas: “Today, we are more divided than at any other time in Nigeria’s history.”

The president has been accused of packing key federal offices with people from his region, with critics slamming him as flouting the federal character and affirmative action principles enshrined in federal laws as necessary fabrics for holding an ethnically and religiously diverse entity like NIgeria together.

Mr Buhari has often pushed back against the claims, saying instead that his appointments have been balanced where they are not skewed towards the south.


Mr Abubakar is only one of several top political players eyeing the PDP ticket, having other top contenders like Sule Lamido and Ahmed Makarfi. Recently, political analysts expect the race to get even more fluid when the likes of Musa Kwankwaso, Aminu Tambuwal and other elements of the so-called newPDP make their expected formal return to the largest opposition entity.

Yet, Mr Abubakar’s stature as a former vice-president and serial presidential contender with vast political and financial muscle made him a top favourite for the ticket. He has visited most of the southern states for consultations, and his office said he plans to take the tour to all the 36 states before the party’s primaries in a few months’ time.


He also sees himself in a good light, aiming directly at Mr Buhari rather than his party ticket challengers.

But critics are dismissing his campaign as a sideshow that would soon hit the rocks because of Mr Abubakar’s unanswered allegations about corruption.

Still dogging his ambition has been the mystery surrounding his failure to travel to the United States since he was named in a corruption trial in that country the previous decade. He has dismissed all allegations of corruption and challenged his opponents to bring forth any evidence of his culpability in graft practices.


Although Mr Abubakar said the Nigerian Constitution did not require that a citizen must possess American travel credentials to be eligible for presidential election, he also said that he had approached the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria for visa, but was turned down.

One of his close associates told PREMIUM TIMES recently that he may still apply for visa before the 2019 election.

But neither the former vice president nor his aides have agreed to entertain questions about whether they would cooperate with U.S. authorities to release his immigration status to the public. The U.S. border authorities told PREMIUM TIMES in early 2017 that Mr Abubakar’s immigration status could be made public, but only if he gives his legal backing to such disclosure.

With him at today’s rally were Uche Secondus, the party’s chairman, Gbenga Daniel, his campaign director, and Ben Murray-Bruce, a serving senator who also emceed the televised event.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/277290-2019-atiku-declares-presidential-bid-tackles-buhari.html

Oga Ati get your party's ticket first ehn then we can talk

AllyPolly:
I wonder where you kept all your "ideas" when you were the vice president for EIGHT YEARS.

That doesn't matter. Did he lie up there? Everything he said is true.

Doctuur:
Ah! Ah! Going 4 Nothing is better to going 4 Atiku. If we could remember vividly, Atiku and His Oga spent good 8yrs on this position. What is/are there outcome? Atiku of all people. Let Buhari continue jor.

WTF. Let him continue from your house. Change part2 begins from you and your family. Otondo.

CanineOfJackal:
What has Osibanjo contributed as the VP

Good question.

lilfreezy:
Nairaland polls. Who would you vote for?

Like for ATIKU

share for BUHARI

Lol.
70% of Buhari standby million voters don't even know what is internet talk more of Nairaland.

This was how Fayose was winning on like and share but lost the main election.

Doctuur:
Ah! Ah! Going 4 Nothing is better to going 4 Atiku. If we could remember vividly, Atiku and His Oga spent good 8yrs on this position. What is/are there outcome? Atiku of all people. Let Buhari continue jor.

why are you talking like this. what has osinbajo do in the past three years

Dandsome:
This is the only person that can give Buhari a run for his money.

If he settles with OBJ and PDP decides to field him, PMB will not find it easy (Even with his rigging)

as long as he can give him a run for his money, I am in

Atiku will be hundred times worse than president bubu. He will completely run nigeria to the ground and sell off the reminants to the chinese. If Atiku and bubu is the best naija can offer then the country is finished.

lielbree:
Atiku won't be given a chance.

But the truth is Nigeria needs him. He will transform the economy with his vast experience in the private sector and CREATE JOBS!

thank you. your brain will not malfunction. this man lots of companies. he has never in any goes bankrupt. that's show you that he is an experience business man. some one that be trusted. what did the current dullard have cows. no wonder he is leading us like cows. I wonder who talked me into voting for him in 2015

Hofbrauhaus:
Atuku ABUBAKAR GCON is our next President. It's time to set Nigeria on the path of greatness.

Not these trabalistic cows currently occupying AsoRock..

To u is this d Type of Leaders we need? This re just Old Fools dat has no Plan for Us..

lilfreezy:
Nairaland polls. Who would you vote for?

Like for ATIKU

share for BUHARI

If you go by 21st century ideology then Atiku fits that criteria but if you go by 607BC ideology then Buhari represents that era, therefore it is left for those with PVC's to decide which ideology they feel very comfortable with just like they did 3years ago.

senatordave1:

Oga,when did running or owning private firms translate automatically to being a good leader? Who told you that running a company is same as governance? So you want atiku to run nigeria like he runs his firms,turning us to slaves? How many businesses did late yaradua and murtala mohammed have? Oga,the best qualification for ruling nigeria is the experience of holding public offices before hand.
By the way,how many times will atikhu declare this year? He will still declare before next month

at least in has been running his company for years. that is some yardstick to show that he will not run the economy of this country, like the dullard in aso Rock is currently running it

PHILipu1:

Lol.
70% of Buhari standby million voters don't even know what is internet talk more of Nairaland.

This was how Fayose was winning on like and share but lost the main election.

You dont need to get your knickers all twisted up.We know that you guys will cheat and rig massively during the 'main elections' gagging and subverting the will of the people..but allow folks to do what they have to do

AllHailBiafra:
and the basic point that he attacked Buhari is (for them) another political strategy to buy the minds of gullible Nigerians that he is no longer from the same Fulani enclave with Buhari so that they can vote for him as a new messiah and saint Atiku? zoo politics eeh.

Meanwhile I have a good news for all the middle belterns and Southern Nigerians (Oduduwa territories completely exclusive) that the leadership of indigenous peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has extended a hand of fellowship to them all to stand up now and embrace peace security and freedom from their foes who have determined to wipe them off through the on going ethnic cleansing in the above mentioned territories by professing their total support and inclusion in Biafra nation through Biafra Referendum.
The earlier the better.
AllHailBiafra!!!

mumu

lilfreezy:
Nairaland polls. Who would you vote for?

Like for ATIKU

share for BUHARI

thanks to the e warriors major stakeholders in pdp failure since 2015 ...they win LIKES on NL back2back .

Bossontop:

Anytin as far as its not buhari.....but Atiku??
Hmmmm

Anything but buhari

We said old age is no going area in 2019 but we are still glamouring for Atiku more than 70yrs old with 7wifes are we moving forward or backwards?

Buhari Beta Atiku by far, if him wan do president make he return our money first. Atiku ole

kamilous:
write your TRABALISTIC very well if you want to critisize.

how is It different from what you wrote

K2asure:
We said old age is no going area in 2019 but we are still glamouring for Atiku more than 70yrs old with 7wifes are we moving forward or backwards?

That shows that those criticizing old age operate on pure hatred and stupid bigotry. They will rather abandon their own bloda (like they did to ojukwu) and go for another corrupt, old Fulani man.
Always misbehave politically!
2023 polls will go to middle belt or Yoruba again because after 2019 election, they will return to secessionist bid- killing themselves again

lilfreezy:
Nairaland polls. Who would you vote for?

Like for ATIKU

share for BUHARI

This "Polls" show that Nigerians are their worst problems. What's Atiku gonna do different?

I am sorry, i don't see any credible presidential contenders in 2019 besides Buhari. The only thing that gives me concern about him is his old age and health. I also wish to see young president like Sowore. But i prefer he should allow Buhari to run 2nd term while he builds his political career in the next 4yrs bcus Sowore can not win against those thief politicians.

Apart from that, Sowore has business in New York, and he knows better that if he decides to make certain moves to better nigeria and his moves don't go down well with the world powers, his business is in jeopardy. And I am sure he doesnt want to lose his business. Therefore, Sowore is vulnerable and may end up being a dump president and Nigerians will be disappointed. But voting Atiku is just like recycling old trash. Let Buhari be the seal of these old politicians.

Ziggylady:



You dont need to get your knickers all twisted up.We know that you guys will cheat and rig massively during the 'main elections' gagging and subverting the will of the people..but allow folks to do what they have to do

Lol.
All elections that PDP members win are free and fair and those they lose are rig.
When will you guys stop wailing?

AllyPolly:
I wonder where you kept all your "ideas" when you were the vice president for EIGHT YEARS.

Not when obasanjo is there?

how old are you self?

...rather him than the relic from the past!