Isn't this the same man that has been accused of being APC supporter,he boldly stated that Tinubu is he's family benefactor and yet he is still running the affairs in LP Lagos.
PandoraObi: What do you mean by irresponsible adult ? Are you the one setting the standard of responsibility and living or you are trying to judge people by your parents limitations or irresponsible, because how does having contrary opinions become an issue, I know what I see that make me stick to my opinion and you have your sentiment that made you stick to your opinion, so are trying to force your opinion on me, please I have always avoid mischievous Igbos that hide under yoruba names to perpetrate evil, I never mention you nor quote
JORDAN202: 2023 : WHY WIKE SHOULD BE MADE THE PDP CHAIRMAN TO SAVE PDP FROM COLLAPSE .... & .... THE AMBUSH AWAITING ATIKU, AND HIS POSITION !
(.............My position is that we have had the same group of politicians in the system for the past 58yrs. However, if we must choose from amongst the usual suspects, perhaps we should all now leave gossips about any individual in the gutter where it belongs................Every leadership candidate should be judged based on their competence, policies, and the chances of delivering on their policies. We do not need leaders who will come with Policy-as-Process or pay as you go approach, rather we need leaders who have a clear vision of the future of Nigeria, and have readymade Policy-as-Prescription ready to hit the ground running from day one. We need to go for quality this time around!)
Former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not new to presidential election contests in the country just as he is not alien to Nigerian politics. He has contested for Nigeria’s number one seat four times within the past two decades. Again, he has thrown his hat into the ring in 2023 as he is edged on by core loyalist .
Atiku’s first expedition into presidential election contest was in 1993 during the transition to civil rule programme of the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida junta. He sought for the plum job on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) but came third after MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe in the primaries of the party. In 1998, he contested and won the governorship of Adamawa State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). But while still waiting to be sworn into office, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the presidential candidate of the PDP, picked him as his running mate. They went into the election and won in 1999 and were sworn into office on May 29, the same year.
The duo, however, reportedly quarreled in the build-up to the 2003 general election and Atiku, who had the overwhelming support of the PDP governors, almost scuttled Obasanjo’s second term bid. It was alleged that Obasanjo went on his knees to beg Atiku to put aside the issues between them so he could clinch the PDP re-run ticket in 2003. Atiku was said to have accepted his appeals and they went into the election on a joint ticket still on the PDP platform.
But the evidence of a broken relationship began to emerge soon after they were sworn in for a second term in office. Their hitherto harmonious relationship went so sour that Atiku openly opposed Obasanjo’s infamous quest for a third term in office in 2006. In return, Obasanjo declined to support Atiku as his successor in office. In fact, Atiku’s case was further compounded when his name appeared in the list of 135 politicians indicted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged corrupt practices.
Following the EFCC report, Obasanjo had to set up a five-man panel tagged “Administrative Panel of Inquiry on Alleged Corrupt Practices by Certain Public Officers and Other Persons to produce a white paper on the report. The panel then recommended that Atiku should not be allowed to stand for the April 2007 polls and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) acted on the recommendation. It took the judgment of the Supreme Court to allow Atiku, who had then defected to the Action Congress (AC) and picked the party’s presidential ticket, to contest the election. He expectedly lost the poll, coming third after the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari of the then All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
Atiku later re-joined the PDP and in August 2010 declared his interest to contest the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the party. He lost the ticket to former president Goodluck Jonathan. He remained in the PDP until February 2014 when he left the party to join the APC. Again, he contested for the position on the platform of the party but came third on the score sheet, with Buhari and former Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwanso taking the first and second positions, respectively.
Barely a year and five months to the next presidential election, which according to INEC’s timetable will hold on February 16, 2019, developments within Atiku’s political camp suggest that he would be throwing his heart into the ring again. But how far can he go? Can he break the jinx this time around or would it amount to another exercise in futility? For him to make a difference in 2019, he would have to overcome some forces. These include:
The Obasanjo factor
Atiku’s frosty relationship with Obasanjo has continued to resonate in political circles many years after the duo left office. Even though Atiku has sought to reconcile with his former boss, including visiting him in his Abeokuta country home sometime in 2009, many political observers believe that the issues between the duo are far from being over. As the then Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, revealed in a recent interview, Obasanjo is out to kill Atiku politically in retaliation for standing on his way. Fayose said: “Obasanjo told me that when you capture a General and you don’t kill him, he will come back and kill you; that since Atiku tried to stop him and failed, he must pay for it. And he (Atiku) is still paying for it.”
But sometime in 2014, the former president told the Northern Youth Leaders Forum who had a two-day meeting with him in Abeokuta that he had forgiven Atiku and other persons perceived to have offended him. “On the request that you made yesterday, I do not have any grudge against anybody. And if there is any, I have forgiven all as a father,” Obasanjo was reported to have said.
The truth is that Obasanjo is still very influential in the political scene even though he has announced his retirement from active politics. His support is critical to anybody contesting for the presidency under Nigeria’s present political configuration and it is not known whether both men have actually resolved their differences.
Mallam Nasir El-rufai
Atiku was reportedly instrumental in bringing the Kaduna State Gonvernor, Nasir El-rufai, into the Obasanjo administration and making him the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and eventually a minister. But they have since fallen apart. Both men even had a public spat in November 2016 when Atiku accused the governor and former EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, of betrayal, saying that Obasanjo used them to cook up the indictment that was eventually quashed by the court.
But El-rufai quickly responded thus: “Alhaji Atiku is already running for 2019, and he thinks that he can make people like us collateral damage in his attempt to rejuvenate his image. This obsession for power inclined him to support the rebellion against the party that manifested in the National Assembly and is continuing with obvious disrespect for the incumbent president. Everyone knows that I support and will continue to work for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari as he leads our country through tough times.”
The Governor had the opportunity to prove that he is for Buhari when one of Atiku’s loyalists, who is the serving Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, declared that she would be supporting Atiku in 2019 and not President Buhari, who appointed her into his cabinet, if both men choose to contest the presidential election. El-rufai was the first sitting governor to make a public statement on the issue, declaring that the majority of APC state governors and ministers were backing Buhari for re-election. And he did so while speaking with State House correspondents after visiting Buhari in Aso Rock two days after the Alhassan declaration. He is practically one of those who would stick with Buhari to the very end.
WIKE
For 2023, having lost, or perhaps lost due to the conspiracy of Ayorcha AYU, we seems to be in a mood to server both the PDP and Atiku a POLITICAL-UPPERCUT for not picking him as the VP candidate despite being overwhelmingly recommended for the plumb position. The WIKE gang-of-4 made up of MAKINDE ORTOM IKPEAZU WIKE, are more than capable of derailing Atiku' final attempt for ASO ROCK. Even as things unfold, Wike has now embarked on a publicity blaze which may finally destroy anything PDP.
Corruption allegation
The former vice president is yet to shake off the corruption tag foisted on him during his squabbles with Obasanjo. And Nigerians keep dusting up the issue each time his name is associated with presidential contest. Just after the recent Alhassan declaration, ordinary Nigerians took to the social media to question his integrity and claims to being prepared to rule Nigeria. In fact, some of them even tackled him on his Twitter handle @atiku on the issue and he had to respond by either debunking their claims or clearing their doubts.
Nevertheless, the former vice president recently lashed out at those portraying him as corrupt in the mainstream media, describing them as self-righteous political enemies. Abubakar, who spoke at a facility tour of the new ultra-modern Yaliam Press Limited in Jabi area of Abuja, urged his critics to either prove his alleged corrupt activities or keep quiet and mind the skeletons in their own closets.
“It is sickening to continue to regurgitate allegations of corruption against me by people who have failed to come forward with a single shred of evidence of my misconduct while in office,” he said.
ATIKU' DREAMS or DESPERATION ?
“The question I ask people who say that is this: what is the desperation about somebody following his dream?
When you are so passionate about something, what is the desperation there? If you can say Atiku is desperate, you would also tell me that President Buhari was desperate. After the 2011 election, President Buhari told the world that he was not going to run again. The rest is history but today, he is the president. For me, it is not out of desperation but patriotic zeal and dedication towards one’s fatherland,” said Atiku’s former campaign director and the National President, All Atiku Support Groups, Oladimeji Fabiyi in a recent interview.
Atiku’s acceptance in the North
But with an Atiku candidacy, it is unlikely that the North would queue behind Tinubu. Even though Buhari has now accepted Tinubu, this may not work for Tinubu because the North that we know may not want power going back to the South, and may rather stick with Atiku. This can be seen that in his previous attempts as a candidate, he serially won or did very well 14 states in the North due to his large following in the region.
More so, Atiku has been at the vanguard of the agitation for restructuring the country, a proposal which a good fraction of the northern political elite is said to be Happy with. So, when the chips are down, they are likely to use the to fully back him as their primary choice above Tinubu and Peter Obi due to their political interest within the region and Atikui would simply hold sway there.
Power rotation arrangement
There is also an unwritten power-sharing agreement, which ensures that the presidency alternates between the North and the South every eight years. It was consolidated in 2007 when former president Obasanjo, a southerner, handed over power to the late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua after eight years (1999 -2007). The mechanism was devised to keep the peace in the country.
However, following Yar’Adua’s illness and eventual death after barely two years in office, power returned to the South in 2010 with Jonathan, Yar’Adua’s erstwhile deputy, in charge. The North was obviously not comfortable with that development and did not want Jonathan to rule the country beyond 2015. Many political observers in the country believe that the decision of the PDP to field Jonathan cost the party the March 28, 2015 presidential election, which was won by President Buhari of the APC.
With power back to the North, the expectation is that the South will take over in 2023. Even the South-east, where there is agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra, the political gladiators in the zone have been positioning for the presidency come 2023. So, Atiku would be faced with the challenge of convincing the power brokers in the South that he would serve for a single term in office and quit in 2023.
And even if he gives them his assurance, they are likely to take it with a pinch of salt, because history has proven that every sitting president the world over, except in rare cases, always seek a second term in office. So, even though most of the ruling elites in the South are on the same page with Atiku on the issue of restructuring, they may not queue behind him . The fear that an Atiku presidency might stretch till 2027 would be a factor to reckon with in the South come 2023.
In spite of these perceived odds, Atiku’s supporters, however, believe that 2023 provides the best opportunity for his presidential ambition. And that revelation again came from Fabiyi. “Ever since he has been contesting elections in this country, there has never been any time that he does not have the best chances but the reason why he could not scale through was because the so-called elite are so uncomfortable and do not believe that he would protect them,” he said.
NB:
In Atiku, the PDP has a formidable candidate to challenge the APC. I believe that very serious thought should be given to Atiku due to his experience in the system.
We all know Obasanjo painted him "corrupt" due to Atiku sabotaging Obasanjo' 2nd term attempt.
Atiku has never been charged to any court in Nigeria for corruption.
It is very wrong of Nigerians to allow themselves to be fooled or teleguided the way Obasanjo has teleguided and manipulated us for too long.
Atiku should be judged on his competence, and not based on the Obasanjo' Revenge-stories.
We know that power will remain in the North until 2023, so let us wisely look at the contestant's policies and evaluate whether they are truly deliverable.
The misinformation and the manipulation of the Atiku' name may, in fact, deny Nigeria of a man who may be able to move us forward.
ATIKU SHOULD GIVE WIKE POWER TO CONTROL PDP ?
Wike and his political gang need to be made to feel very important in the PDP.
It is true that Wike was at the forefront of the people that helped to steady & saved PDP from collapse following the political-genocide that befell the PDP after the 2015 defeat by the APC.
As it stands, Wike has no political position to contest for in 2023, and does not even have a Place-Holder for the Senate.
The nature of Wike would not make him allow himself to be sidelined in the thick of the 2023 battle for ASO-ROCK.
Wike' view may be that if he does not show his skills in 'moving mountains' during the elections, the Atiku govt may treat him like a nobody.
If I were Atiku, I will Remove Ayorcha Ayu as Chairman of the PDP and install WIKE to run the party just like PMB used Gov. BUNI to STABILIZE the almost collapsed APC.
The advantage of this to Atiku and the PDP is that Wike will deploy all his Arsenals to ensure that Atiku takes ASO-ROCK.
PDP will then see the usual disgruntled APC politicians moving to them.
Wike and his political-gang will feel HAPPY & APPRECIATED because they know that their political reward will be guaranteed after they put Atiku in ASO-ROCK.
Atiku would have then fulfilled his 30yrs dream to take the presidency of Nigeria.
Nigerians will rejoice, even for a brief moment after enduring the LIE-LIE of the APC for over 8yrs.
Wike will be striding like the Cheshire cat that got the cream.
Politically, Wike will be finished if he fails to DEMOLSH the APC like he has variously stated.
Failure will not be an option for Wike.
Ayorcha Ayu, even without the Wike crisis, will certainly not be able to finish the APC off.
Wike has the reach and the war-chest to deliver 2023 for Atiku.
Atiku & PDP needs Wike to force the PDP back into ASO-ROCK.
Ayorcha Ayu is a POLITICAL PAPER-WEIGHT that cannot survive the Tinubu' now deployed political-army.
A team of Atiku & Wike, would route the Tinubu political machinary.
Atiku & Wike should do a better SWOT analysis of the developing threat of the PETER OBI Movement which is now sweeping Nigeria.
Peter Obi, not Tinubu may sweep into ASO-ROCK if Atiku fails to dump Ayorcha Ayu and give the PDP instruments to Wike.
Politics in Nigeria is a very lucrative industry in Nigeria, and at this point of the possible implosion of the PDP, a wise Atiku should do unto Ayorcha Ayu what Brutus did to Julius CEASER.
There is no loyalty in Nigerian politics. Give your enemies what they want and they will make you much stronger.
A wise Atiku should DRESS WIKE IN BORROWED ROBES until after the Wike control of the PDP delivers ASO-ROCK to him in 2023.
Further, Atiku, PDP, Wike & his Associates, as well as Nigerians, should also remember to THANK ME (ELVIS DUKE) for solving the PDP wars ...
Just to piss you people off Vote wisely Vote LP for positive change
JORDAN202: 2023 : WHY WIKE SHOULD BE MADE THE PDP CHAIRMAN TO SAVE PDP FROM COLLAPSE .... & .... THE AMBUSH AWAITING ATIKU, AND HIS POSITION !
(.............My position is that we have had the same group of politicians in the system for the past 58yrs. However, if we must choose from amongst the usual suspects, perhaps we should all now leave gossips about any individual in the gutter where it belongs................Every leadership candidate should be judged based on their competence, policies, and the chances of delivering on their policies. We do not need leaders who will come with Policy-as-Process or pay as you go approach, rather we need leaders who have a clear vision of the future of Nigeria, and have readymade Policy-as-Prescription ready to hit the ground running from day one. We need to go for quality this time around!)
Former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not new to presidential election contests in the country just as he is not alien to Nigerian politics. He has contested for Nigeria’s number one seat four times within the past two decades. Again, he has thrown his hat into the ring in 2023 as he is edged on by core loyalist .
Atiku’s first expedition into presidential election contest was in 1993 during the transition to civil rule programme of the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida junta. He sought for the plum job on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) but came third after MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe in the primaries of the party. In 1998, he contested and won the governorship of Adamawa State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). But while still waiting to be sworn into office, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the presidential candidate of the PDP, picked him as his running mate. They went into the election and won in 1999 and were sworn into office on May 29, the same year.
The duo, however, reportedly quarreled in the build-up to the 2003 general election and Atiku, who had the overwhelming support of the PDP governors, almost scuttled Obasanjo’s second term bid. It was alleged that Obasanjo went on his knees to beg Atiku to put aside the issues between them so he could clinch the PDP re-run ticket in 2003. Atiku was said to have accepted his appeals and they went into the election on a joint ticket still on the PDP platform.
But the evidence of a broken relationship began to emerge soon after they were sworn in for a second term in office. Their hitherto harmonious relationship went so sour that Atiku openly opposed Obasanjo’s infamous quest for a third term in office in 2006. In return, Obasanjo declined to support Atiku as his successor in office. In fact, Atiku’s case was further compounded when his name appeared in the list of 135 politicians indicted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged corrupt practices.
Following the EFCC report, Obasanjo had to set up a five-man panel tagged “Administrative Panel of Inquiry on Alleged Corrupt Practices by Certain Public Officers and Other Persons to produce a white paper on the report. The panel then recommended that Atiku should not be allowed to stand for the April 2007 polls and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) acted on the recommendation. It took the judgment of the Supreme Court to allow Atiku, who had then defected to the Action Congress (AC) and picked the party’s presidential ticket, to contest the election. He expectedly lost the poll, coming third after the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari of the then All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
Atiku later re-joined the PDP and in August 2010 declared his interest to contest the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the party. He lost the ticket to former president Goodluck Jonathan. He remained in the PDP until February 2014 when he left the party to join the APC. Again, he contested for the position on the platform of the party but came third on the score sheet, with Buhari and former Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwanso taking the first and second positions, respectively.
Barely a year and five months to the next presidential election, which according to INEC’s timetable will hold on February 16, 2019, developments within Atiku’s political camp suggest that he would be throwing his heart into the ring again. But how far can he go? Can he break the jinx this time around or would it amount to another exercise in futility? For him to make a difference in 2019, he would have to overcome some forces. These include:
The Obasanjo factor
Atiku’s frosty relationship with Obasanjo has continued to resonate in political circles many years after the duo left office. Even though Atiku has sought to reconcile with his former boss, including visiting him in his Abeokuta country home sometime in 2009, many political observers believe that the issues between the duo are far from being over. As the then Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, revealed in a recent interview, Obasanjo is out to kill Atiku politically in retaliation for standing on his way. Fayose said: “Obasanjo told me that when you capture a General and you don’t kill him, he will come back and kill you; that since Atiku tried to stop him and failed, he must pay for it. And he (Atiku) is still paying for it.”
But sometime in 2014, the former president told the Northern Youth Leaders Forum who had a two-day meeting with him in Abeokuta that he had forgiven Atiku and other persons perceived to have offended him. “On the request that you made yesterday, I do not have any grudge against anybody. And if there is any, I have forgiven all as a father,” Obasanjo was reported to have said.
The truth is that Obasanjo is still very influential in the political scene even though he has announced his retirement from active politics. His support is critical to anybody contesting for the presidency under Nigeria’s present political configuration and it is not known whether both men have actually resolved their differences.
Mallam Nasir El-rufai
Atiku was reportedly instrumental in bringing the Kaduna State Gonvernor, Nasir El-rufai, into the Obasanjo administration and making him the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and eventually a minister. But they have since fallen apart. Both men even had a public spat in November 2016 when Atiku accused the governor and former EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, of betrayal, saying that Obasanjo used them to cook up the indictment that was eventually quashed by the court.
But El-rufai quickly responded thus: “Alhaji Atiku is already running for 2019, and he thinks that he can make people like us collateral damage in his attempt to rejuvenate his image. This obsession for power inclined him to support the rebellion against the party that manifested in the National Assembly and is continuing with obvious disrespect for the incumbent president. Everyone knows that I support and will continue to work for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari as he leads our country through tough times.”
The Governor had the opportunity to prove that he is for Buhari when one of Atiku’s loyalists, who is the serving Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, declared that she would be supporting Atiku in 2019 and not President Buhari, who appointed her into his cabinet, if both men choose to contest the presidential election. El-rufai was the first sitting governor to make a public statement on the issue, declaring that the majority of APC state governors and ministers were backing Buhari for re-election. And he did so while speaking with State House correspondents after visiting Buhari in Aso Rock two days after the Alhassan declaration. He is practically one of those who would stick with Buhari to the very end.
WIKE
For 2023, having lost, or perhaps lost due to the conspiracy of Ayorcha AYU, we seems to be in a mood to server both the PDP and Atiku a POLITICAL-UPPERCUT for not picking him as the VP candidate despite being overwhelmingly recommended for the plumb position. The WIKE gang-of-4 made up of MAKINDE ORTOM IKPEAZU WIKE, are more than capable of derailing Atiku' final attempt for ASO ROCK. Even as things unfold, Wike has now embarked on a publicity blaze which may finally destroy anything PDP.
Corruption allegation
The former vice president is yet to shake off the corruption tag foisted on him during his squabbles with Obasanjo. And Nigerians keep dusting up the issue each time his name is associated with presidential contest. Just after the recent Alhassan declaration, ordinary Nigerians took to the social media to question his integrity and claims to being prepared to rule Nigeria. In fact, some of them even tackled him on his Twitter handle @atiku on the issue and he had to respond by either debunking their claims or clearing their doubts.
Nevertheless, the former vice president recently lashed out at those portraying him as corrupt in the mainstream media, describing them as self-righteous political enemies. Abubakar, who spoke at a facility tour of the new ultra-modern Yaliam Press Limited in Jabi area of Abuja, urged his critics to either prove his alleged corrupt activities or keep quiet and mind the skeletons in their own closets.
“It is sickening to continue to regurgitate allegations of corruption against me by people who have failed to come forward with a single shred of evidence of my misconduct while in office,” he said.
ATIKU' DREAMS or DESPERATION ?
“The question I ask people who say that is this: what is the desperation about somebody following his dream?
When you are so passionate about something, what is the desperation there? If you can say Atiku is desperate, you would also tell me that President Buhari was desperate. After the 2011 election, President Buhari told the world that he was not going to run again. The rest is history but today, he is the president. For me, it is not out of desperation but patriotic zeal and dedication towards one’s fatherland,” said Atiku’s former campaign director and the National President, All Atiku Support Groups, Oladimeji Fabiyi in a recent interview.
Atiku’s acceptance in the North
But with an Atiku candidacy, it is unlikely that the North would queue behind Tinubu. Even though Buhari has now accepted Tinubu, this may not work for Tinubu because the North that we know may not want power going back to the South, and may rather stick with Atiku. This can be seen that in his previous attempts as a candidate, he serially won or did very well 14 states in the North due to his large following in the region.
More so, Atiku has been at the vanguard of the agitation for restructuring the country, a proposal which a good fraction of the northern political elite is said to be Happy with. So, when the chips are down, they are likely to use the to fully back him as their primary choice above Tinubu and Peter Obi due to their political interest within the region and Atikui would simply hold sway there.
Power rotation arrangement
There is also an unwritten power-sharing agreement, which ensures that the presidency alternates between the North and the South every eight years. It was consolidated in 2007 when former president Obasanjo, a southerner, handed over power to the late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua after eight years (1999 -2007). The mechanism was devised to keep the peace in the country.
However, following Yar’Adua’s illness and eventual death after barely two years in office, power returned to the South in 2010 with Jonathan, Yar’Adua’s erstwhile deputy, in charge. The North was obviously not comfortable with that development and did not want Jonathan to rule the country beyond 2015. Many political observers in the country believe that the decision of the PDP to field Jonathan cost the party the March 28, 2015 presidential election, which was won by President Buhari of the APC.
With power back to the North, the expectation is that the South will take over in 2023. Even the South-east, where there is agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra, the political gladiators in the zone have been positioning for the presidency come 2023. So, Atiku would be faced with the challenge of convincing the power brokers in the South that he would serve for a single term in office and quit in 2023.
And even if he gives them his assurance, they are likely to take it with a pinch of salt, because history has proven that every sitting president the world over, except in rare cases, always seek a second term in office. So, even though most of the ruling elites in the South are on the same page with Atiku on the issue of restructuring, they may not queue behind him . The fear that an Atiku presidency might stretch till 2027 would be a factor to reckon with in the South come 2023.
In spite of these perceived odds, Atiku’s supporters, however, believe that 2023 provides the best opportunity for his presidential ambition. And that revelation again came from Fabiyi. “Ever since he has been contesting elections in this country, there has never been any time that he does not have the best chances but the reason why he could not scale through was because the so-called elite are so uncomfortable and do not believe that he would protect them,” he said.
NB:
In Atiku, the PDP has a formidable candidate to challenge the APC. I believe that very serious thought should be given to Atiku due to his experience in the system.
We all know Obasanjo painted him "corrupt" due to Atiku sabotaging Obasanjo' 2nd term attempt.
Atiku has never been charged to any court in Nigeria for corruption.
It is very wrong of Nigerians to allow themselves to be fooled or teleguided the way Obasanjo has teleguided and manipulated us for too long.
Atiku should be judged on his competence, and not based on the Obasanjo' Revenge-stories.
We know that power will remain in the North until 2023, so let us wisely look at the contestant's policies and evaluate whether they are truly deliverable.
The misinformation and the manipulation of the Atiku' name may, in fact, deny Nigeria of a man who may be able to move us forward.
ATIKU SHOULD GIVE WIKE POWER TO CONTROL PDP ?
Wike and his political gang need to be made to feel very important in the PDP.
It is true that Wike was at the forefront of the people that helped to steady & saved PDP from collapse following the political-genocide that befell the PDP after the 2015 defeat by the APC.
As it stands, Wike has no political position to contest for in 2023, and does not even have a Place-Holder for the Senate.
The nature of Wike would not make him allow himself to be sidelined in the thick of the 2023 battle for ASO-ROCK.
Wike' view may be that if he does not show his skills in 'moving mountains' during the elections, the Atiku govt may treat him like a nobody.
If I were Atiku, I will Remove Ayorcha Ayu as Chairman of the PDP and install WIKE to run the party just like PMB used Gov. BUNI to STABILIZE the almost collapsed APC.
The advantage of this to Atiku and the PDP is that Wike will deploy all his Arsenals to ensure that Atiku takes ASO-ROCK.
PDP will then see the usual disgruntled APC politicians moving to them.
Wike and his political-gang will feel HAPPY & APPRECIATED because they know that their political reward will be guaranteed after they put Atiku in ASO-ROCK.
Atiku would have then fulfilled his 30yrs dream to take the presidency of Nigeria.
Nigerians will rejoice, even for a brief moment after enduring the LIE-LIE of the APC for over 8yrs.
Wike will be striding like the Cheshire cat that got the cream.
Politically, Wike will be finished if he fails to DEMOLSH the APC like he has variously stated.
Failure will not be an option for Wike.
Ayorcha Ayu, even without the Wike crisis, will certainly not be able to finish the APC off.
Wike has the reach and the war-chest to deliver 2023 for Atiku.
Atiku & PDP needs Wike to force the PDP back into ASO-ROCK.
Ayorcha Ayu is a POLITICAL PAPER-WEIGHT that cannot survive the Tinubu' now deployed political-army.
A team of Atiku & Wike, would route the Tinubu political machinary.
Atiku & Wike should do a better SWOT analysis of the developing threat of the PETER OBI Movement which is now sweeping Nigeria.
Peter Obi, not Tinubu may sweep into ASO-ROCK if Atiku fails to dump Ayorcha Ayu and give the PDP instruments to Wike.
Politics in Nigeria is a very lucrative industry in Nigeria, and at this point of the possible implosion of the PDP, a wise Atiku should do unto Ayorcha Ayu what Brutus did to Julius CEASER.
There is no loyalty in Nigerian politics. Give your enemies what they want and they will make you much stronger.
A wise Atiku should DRESS WIKE IN BORROWED ROBES until after the Wike control of the PDP delivers ASO-ROCK to him in 2023.
Further, Atiku, PDP, Wike & his Associates, as well as Nigerians, should also remember to THANK ME (ELVIS DUKE) for solving the PDP wars ...
JORDAN202: 2023 : WHY WIKE SHOULD BE MADE THE PDP CHAIRMAN TO SAVE PDP FROM COLLAPSE .... & .... THE AMBUSH AWAITING ATIKU, AND HIS POSITION !
(.............My position is that we have had the same group of politicians in the system for the past 58yrs. However, if we must choose from amongst the usual suspects, perhaps we should all now leave gossips about any individual in the gutter where it belongs................Every leadership candidate should be judged based on their competence, policies, and the chances of delivering on their policies. We do not need leaders who will come with Policy-as-Process or pay as you go approach, rather we need leaders who have a clear vision of the future of Nigeria, and have readymade Policy-as-Prescription ready to hit the ground running from day one. We need to go for quality this time around!)
Former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not new to presidential election contests in the country just as he is not alien to Nigerian politics. He has contested for Nigeria’s number one seat four times within the past two decades. Again, he has thrown his hat into the ring in 2023 as he is edged on by core loyalist .
Atiku’s first expedition into presidential election contest was in 1993 during the transition to civil rule programme of the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida junta. He sought for the plum job on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) but came third after MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe in the primaries of the party. In 1998, he contested and won the governorship of Adamawa State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). But while still waiting to be sworn into office, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the presidential candidate of the PDP, picked him as his running mate. They went into the election and won in 1999 and were sworn into office on May 29, the same year.
The duo, however, reportedly quarreled in the build-up to the 2003 general election and Atiku, who had the overwhelming support of the PDP governors, almost scuttled Obasanjo’s second term bid. It was alleged that Obasanjo went on his knees to beg Atiku to put aside the issues between them so he could clinch the PDP re-run ticket in 2003. Atiku was said to have accepted his appeals and they went into the election on a joint ticket still on the PDP platform.
But the evidence of a broken relationship began to emerge soon after they were sworn in for a second term in office. Their hitherto harmonious relationship went so sour that Atiku openly opposed Obasanjo’s infamous quest for a third term in office in 2006. In return, Obasanjo declined to support Atiku as his successor in office. In fact, Atiku’s case was further compounded when his name appeared in the list of 135 politicians indicted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged corrupt practices.
Following the EFCC report, Obasanjo had to set up a five-man panel tagged “Administrative Panel of Inquiry on Alleged Corrupt Practices by Certain Public Officers and Other Persons to produce a white paper on the report. The panel then recommended that Atiku should not be allowed to stand for the April 2007 polls and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) acted on the recommendation. It took the judgment of the Supreme Court to allow Atiku, who had then defected to the Action Congress (AC) and picked the party’s presidential ticket, to contest the election. He expectedly lost the poll, coming third after the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari of the then All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
Atiku later re-joined the PDP and in August 2010 declared his interest to contest the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the party. He lost the ticket to former president Goodluck Jonathan. He remained in the PDP until February 2014 when he left the party to join the APC. Again, he contested for the position on the platform of the party but came third on the score sheet, with Buhari and former Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwanso taking the first and second positions, respectively.
Barely a year and five months to the next presidential election, which according to INEC’s timetable will hold on February 16, 2019, developments within Atiku’s political camp suggest that he would be throwing his heart into the ring again. But how far can he go? Can he break the jinx this time around or would it amount to another exercise in futility? For him to make a difference in 2019, he would have to overcome some forces. These include:
The Obasanjo factor
Atiku’s frosty relationship with Obasanjo has continued to resonate in political circles many years after the duo left office. Even though Atiku has sought to reconcile with his former boss, including visiting him in his Abeokuta country home sometime in 2009, many political observers believe that the issues between the duo are far from being over. As the then Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, revealed in a recent interview, Obasanjo is out to kill Atiku politically in retaliation for standing on his way. Fayose said: “Obasanjo told me that when you capture a General and you don’t kill him, he will come back and kill you; that since Atiku tried to stop him and failed, he must pay for it. And he (Atiku) is still paying for it.”
But sometime in 2014, the former president told the Northern Youth Leaders Forum who had a two-day meeting with him in Abeokuta that he had forgiven Atiku and other persons perceived to have offended him. “On the request that you made yesterday, I do not have any grudge against anybody. And if there is any, I have forgiven all as a father,” Obasanjo was reported to have said.
The truth is that Obasanjo is still very influential in the political scene even though he has announced his retirement from active politics. His support is critical to anybody contesting for the presidency under Nigeria’s present political configuration and it is not known whether both men have actually resolved their differences.
Mallam Nasir El-rufai
Atiku was reportedly instrumental in bringing the Kaduna State Gonvernor, Nasir El-rufai, into the Obasanjo administration and making him the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and eventually a minister. But they have since fallen apart. Both men even had a public spat in November 2016 when Atiku accused the governor and former EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, of betrayal, saying that Obasanjo used them to cook up the indictment that was eventually quashed by the court.
But El-rufai quickly responded thus: “Alhaji Atiku is already running for 2019, and he thinks that he can make people like us collateral damage in his attempt to rejuvenate his image. This obsession for power inclined him to support the rebellion against the party that manifested in the National Assembly and is continuing with obvious disrespect for the incumbent president. Everyone knows that I support and will continue to work for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari as he leads our country through tough times.”
The Governor had the opportunity to prove that he is for Buhari when one of Atiku’s loyalists, who is the serving Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, declared that she would be supporting Atiku in 2019 and not President Buhari, who appointed her into his cabinet, if both men choose to contest the presidential election. El-rufai was the first sitting governor to make a public statement on the issue, declaring that the majority of APC state governors and ministers were backing Buhari for re-election. And he did so while speaking with State House correspondents after visiting Buhari in Aso Rock two days after the Alhassan declaration. He is practically one of those who would stick with Buhari to the very end.
WIKE
For 2023, having lost, or perhaps lost due to the conspiracy of Ayorcha AYU, we seems to be in a mood to server both the PDP and Atiku a POLITICAL-UPPERCUT for not picking him as the VP candidate despite being overwhelmingly recommended for the plumb position. The WIKE gang-of-4 made up of MAKINDE ORTOM IKPEAZU WIKE, are more than capable of derailing Atiku' final attempt for ASO ROCK. Even as things unfold, Wike has now embarked on a publicity blaze which may finally destroy anything PDP.
Corruption allegation
The former vice president is yet to shake off the corruption tag foisted on him during his squabbles with Obasanjo. And Nigerians keep dusting up the issue each time his name is associated with presidential contest. Just after the recent Alhassan declaration, ordinary Nigerians took to the social media to question his integrity and claims to being prepared to rule Nigeria. In fact, some of them even tackled him on his Twitter handle @atiku on the issue and he had to respond by either debunking their claims or clearing their doubts.
Nevertheless, the former vice president recently lashed out at those portraying him as corrupt in the mainstream media, describing them as self-righteous political enemies. Abubakar, who spoke at a facility tour of the new ultra-modern Yaliam Press Limited in Jabi area of Abuja, urged his critics to either prove his alleged corrupt activities or keep quiet and mind the skeletons in their own closets.
“It is sickening to continue to regurgitate allegations of corruption against me by people who have failed to come forward with a single shred of evidence of my misconduct while in office,” he said.
ATIKU' DREAMS or DESPERATION ?
“The question I ask people who say that is this: what is the desperation about somebody following his dream?
When you are so passionate about something, what is the desperation there? If you can say Atiku is desperate, you would also tell me that President Buhari was desperate. After the 2011 election, President Buhari told the world that he was not going to run again. The rest is history but today, he is the president. For me, it is not out of desperation but patriotic zeal and dedication towards one’s fatherland,” said Atiku’s former campaign director and the National President, All Atiku Support Groups, Oladimeji Fabiyi in a recent interview.
Atiku’s acceptance in the North
But with an Atiku candidacy, it is unlikely that the North would queue behind Tinubu. Even though Buhari has now accepted Tinubu, this may not work for Tinubu because the North that we know may not want power going back to the South, and may rather stick with Atiku. This can be seen that in his previous attempts as a candidate, he serially won or did very well 14 states in the North due to his large following in the region.
More so, Atiku has been at the vanguard of the agitation for restructuring the country, a proposal which a good fraction of the northern political elite is said to be Happy with. So, when the chips are down, they are likely to use the to fully back him as their primary choice above Tinubu and Peter Obi due to their political interest within the region and Atikui would simply hold sway there.
Power rotation arrangement
There is also an unwritten power-sharing agreement, which ensures that the presidency alternates between the North and the South every eight years. It was consolidated in 2007 when former president Obasanjo, a southerner, handed over power to the late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua after eight years (1999 -2007). The mechanism was devised to keep the peace in the country.
However, following Yar’Adua’s illness and eventual death after barely two years in office, power returned to the South in 2010 with Jonathan, Yar’Adua’s erstwhile deputy, in charge. The North was obviously not comfortable with that development and did not want Jonathan to rule the country beyond 2015. Many political observers in the country believe that the decision of the PDP to field Jonathan cost the party the March 28, 2015 presidential election, which was won by President Buhari of the APC.
With power back to the North, the expectation is that the South will take over in 2023. Even the South-east, where there is agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra, the political gladiators in the zone have been positioning for the presidency come 2023. So, Atiku would be faced with the challenge of convincing the power brokers in the South that he would serve for a single term in office and quit in 2023.
And even if he gives them his assurance, they are likely to take it with a pinch of salt, because history has proven that every sitting president the world over, except in rare cases, always seek a second term in office. So, even though most of the ruling elites in the South are on the same page with Atiku on the issue of restructuring, they may not queue behind him . The fear that an Atiku presidency might stretch till 2027 would be a factor to reckon with in the South come 2023.
In spite of these perceived odds, Atiku’s supporters, however, believe that 2023 provides the best opportunity for his presidential ambition. And that revelation again came from Fabiyi. “Ever since he has been contesting elections in this country, there has never been any time that he does not have the best chances but the reason why he could not scale through was because the so-called elite are so uncomfortable and do not believe that he would protect them,” he said.
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In Atiku, the PDP has a formidable candidate to challenge the APC. I believe that very serious thought should be given to Atiku due to his experience in the system.
We all know Obasanjo painted him "corrupt" due to Atiku sabotaging Obasanjo' 2nd term attempt.
Atiku has never been charged to any court in Nigeria for corruption.
It is very wrong of Nigerians to allow themselves to be fooled or teleguided the way Obasanjo has teleguided and manipulated us for too long.
Atiku should be judged on his competence, and not based on the Obasanjo' Revenge-stories.
We know that power will remain in the North until 2023, so let us wisely look at the contestant's policies and evaluate whether they are truly deliverable.
The misinformation and the manipulation of the Atiku' name may, in fact, deny Nigeria of a man who may be able to move us forward.
ATIKU SHOULD GIVE WIKE POWER TO CONTROL PDP ?
Wike and his political gang need to be made to feel very important in the PDP.
It is true that Wike was at the forefront of the people that helped to steady & saved PDP from collapse following the political-genocide that befell the PDP after the 2015 defeat by the APC.
As it stands, Wike has no political position to contest for in 2023, and does not even have a Place-Holder for the Senate.
The nature of Wike would not make him allow himself to be sidelined in the thick of the 2023 battle for ASO-ROCK.
Wike' view may be that if he does not show his skills in 'moving mountains' during the elections, the Atiku govt may treat him like a nobody.
If I were Atiku, I will Remove Ayorcha Ayu as Chairman of the PDP and install WIKE to run the party just like PMB used Gov. BUNI to STABILIZE the almost collapsed APC.
The advantage of this to Atiku and the PDP is that Wike will deploy all his Arsenals to ensure that Atiku takes ASO-ROCK.
PDP will then see the usual disgruntled APC politicians moving to them.
Wike and his political-gang will feel HAPPY & APPRECIATED because they know that their political reward will be guaranteed after they put Atiku in ASO-ROCK.
Atiku would have then fulfilled his 30yrs dream to take the presidency of Nigeria.
Nigerians will rejoice, even for a brief moment after enduring the LIE-LIE of the APC for over 8yrs.
Wike will be striding like the Cheshire cat that got the cream.
Politically, Wike will be finished if he fails to DEMOLSH the APC like he has variously stated.
Failure will not be an option for Wike.
Ayorcha Ayu, even without the Wike crisis, will certainly not be able to finish the APC off.
Wike has the reach and the war-chest to deliver 2023 for Atiku.
Atiku & PDP needs Wike to force the PDP back into ASO-ROCK.
Ayorcha Ayu is a POLITICAL PAPER-WEIGHT that cannot survive the Tinubu' now deployed political-army.
A team of Atiku & Wike, would route the Tinubu political machinary.
Atiku & Wike should do a better SWOT analysis of the developing threat of the PETER OBI Movement which is now sweeping Nigeria.
Peter Obi, not Tinubu may sweep into ASO-ROCK if Atiku fails to dump Ayorcha Ayu and give the PDP instruments to Wike.
Politics in Nigeria is a very lucrative industry in Nigeria, and at this point of the possible implosion of the PDP, a wise Atiku should do unto Ayorcha Ayu what Brutus did to Julius CEASER.
There is no loyalty in Nigerian politics. Give your enemies what they want and they will make you much stronger.
A wise Atiku should DRESS WIKE IN BORROWED ROBES until after the Wike control of the PDP delivers ASO-ROCK to him in 2023.
Further, Atiku, PDP, Wike & his Associates, as well as Nigerians, should also remember to THANK ME (ELVIS DUKE) for solving the PDP wars ...
We no send who ends up as the governor or senator, once the head is correct the body will adjust.
adekolaelect: Noise makers are confused that they don't know what to say abt the failiour of their party .yeye dey smell .... They will still come out to some one when they can't win 3 states in the coming election.
if you are a human being, a Nigerian either youth or adult and you are campaigning for either Tinubu or Atiku with your phone, data, time and energy wheather off-line or on any social media platforms for president without receiving an alert of at Least #100,000 Naira every month from those two slave master's, it means you are The most senseless ,fooolish, Useless, disgusting and mentally demented soul on this Earth, Vote wisely, Vote OBI/DATTI.
lhordspy: Nobody takes bunch of clowns serious. Not even INEC , Medocrity at its peak.
Dear Good people of Nigeria, always know that excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.
Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity. Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your believe or sway your minds by bullying you with lies , propaganda, religious sentiment, and colourful rally pictures without any significancy and electoral consequencies.
Always remember lions have little in common with sheeps. The ones that are blindly move about by a lying, falsling, fraudulent incompetent shepard especially.
Shalom.
Is this the same INEC that granted an extension for the submission of a running mate just to accommodate your Messiah Tinubu. Whatever amount they are paying you to be a troll online I guess you are showing you are worth every dime. Ain't this a mother fu^king piece of crap !!!!
lhordspy: Nobody takes bunch of clowns serious. Not even INEC , Medocrity at its peak.
Dear Good people of Nigeria, always know that excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.
Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity. Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your believe or sway your minds by bullying you with lies , propaganda, religious sentiment, and colourful rally pictures without any significancy and electoral consequencies.
Always remember lions have little in common with sheeps. The ones that are blindly move about by a lying, falsling, fraudulent incompetent shepard especially.
Can you show us your account balance. A suffering man without a job is happy being jobless just to be ranting on Nairaland.Mark my word,you will still be in Nairaland in the next 8 years. If u like change your name but within yourself u know yourself. Jobless fool
if you are a human being, a Nigerian either youth or adult and you are campaigning for either Tinubu or Atiku with your phone, data, time and energy wheather off-line or on any social media platforms for president without receiving an alert of at Least #100,000 Naira every month from those two slave master's, it means you are The most senseless ,fooolish, Useless, disgusting and mentally demented soul on this Earth, Vote wisely, Vote OBI/DATTI.
Can you show us your account balance. A suffering man without a job is happy being jobless just to be ranting on Nairaland.Mark my word,you will still be in Nairaland in the next 8 years. If u like change your name but within yourself u know yourself. Jobless fool
Can you show us your account balance. A suffering man without a job is happy being jobless just to be ranting on Nairaland.Mark my word,you will still be in Nairaland in the next 8 years. If u like change your name but within yourself u know yourself. Jobless fool
I don't know this is the extend of your suffering, bitterness and depression, you even want see my account balance as if your anguish and hatred will make you to believe it, boy work on yourself and stop waiting for one imaginary messiah that will deliver your family from extreme penury, you are the one wailing and lamenting, mind you I am not your father, I am not responsible for your depression
if you are a human being, a Nigerian either youth or adult and you are campaigning for either Tinubu or Atiku with your phone, data, time and energy wheather off-line or on any social media platforms for president without receiving an alert of at Least #100,000 Naira every month from those two slave master's, it means you are The most senseless ,fooolish, Useless, disgusting and mentally demented soul on this Earth, Vote wisely, Vote OBI/DATTI.
Just campaign your own. Convince the undecided. Don't abuse anyone for his or her choice.
Some of us are tired of all these line of insults and abuses.
