The Man Atiku Abubakar Should Pick as His Running Mate is?
By eeetuk

Reports from social media and newspapers in Nigeria suggest PDP presidential candidate for 2023 presidential election, Mr. Atiku Abubakar is closed to naming his running mate. That makes me want to offer him this advice: Please don’t rush. Selecting a running mate is the most important decision a candidate for an election makes for the country and himself. That is because your choice tells Nigerians and the whole world whether you can make a good decision or not.

So, before selecting a running mate, do opposition research on that individual to discover something that can embarrass you about your running mate. You will not be elected if your running mate has some dirt in his or her records. Remember that selecting a running mate is the most important decision you make for the country. That is how people are going to judge you—going forward.

That said, Nigeria presidential election in 2023 is for PDP to lose unless the flagbearer, Mr. Atiku Abubakar makes wrong decisions. All the metrics for winning election are in favor of PDP:

The current President of Nigeria, Mohammad Buhari is a disaster. Since assuming office in 2015, economic growth which has been on steady recovery since 1999 is in total collapse stage. Unemployment rate has skyrockets to 60 %, according to recent report by the UN. Nigeria is no longer safe to live. Kidnapping of school children and ordinary citizens is uncontrollable. Militancy group in the northern Nigeria, Boko Haram has killed over 500,000 Nigerians in 6 years of Buhari presidency and displayed over 10 million Nigerians. University of Jos—located in the state of plateau has just shut down its institution because of rising kidnapping and killings of students. Nigerian Defense Academy—an institution which trained Nigerian military officers is not even safe for students to attend school. A year ago, students were reported killed and others kidnapped were later reported killed. Nigeria needs a new leader now who can make good decision. Nigerians are totally dissatisfying with the way president Buhari is handling one crisis after the other. Buhari job approval is below 10 out 100, according recent online polls. The ruling party is not performing.

Without naming names, many names about who Mr. Atiku Abubakar might picked have begun to float around by opinion writers and more.
So, who will Mr. Abubakar select as his running mate?

Without a doubt, I take the position that if Mr. Atiku Abubakar wants to win 2023 presidency, the best candidate for the position of running mate is Umana Okon Umana.
Umana Okon Umana is currently the CEO and managing Director for oil and Gas zone authority in Nigeria. Since becoming CEO/MD, he has transformed the agency to the best managed and it is ranked number one in good management, according to latest government report.

And in 1999 to 2007, he was the commissioner for finance in Akwa Ibom State under Governor Victor Attah. While serving as a commissioner for finance, Mr. Umana uncovered and removed the names of thousands of ghost workers in the state payroll—saving the state billions in revenues. He also served as the secretary to Akwa Ibom State government with distinction and honor.

Unlike many Nigerians who used government to get rich, Mr. Umana honesty and integrity in the managing the affairs of government have never been questioned. Instead, he has received many praises and congratulatory messages in his role as a true government servant.

Under Mr Umana Okon Umana’s leadership, Nigeria will turn years of failures to success.