Few months ago Kwankwaso threatened Atiku that if PDP don't make his in-law their governorship candidate he will dump the party.
PDP made his in-law

Now He is threatening Atiku that if he don't give him 1 billion naira he will dump PDP.


Please who knows Atiku should tell him not to be selfish, he must distribute his loot.

deboysben:
He will still debunk the news

Yes he will. I believe it is a tactic of collecting the 1 billion form Atiku by threatening him.

Atiku is too stingy only him want to eat his loot.

What would be the foreign policy of Atiku if he can't go to the US?

haffaze777:

Just call it a person of integrity, it use mainly for Yoruba folk

Thanks

haffaze777:
[s][/s]

U can never be Omoluabi,ur support for Fugitive gives u out,no sane Yoruba will support fugitive

What is the meaning of Omoluabi?

Presidential aide, Garba Shehu said: “President Buhari will not force anyone to support him. Rather, this is a shocking revelation of the PDP chairman’s rating of governors in their party. Is he, by this, suggesting that they are imbeciles?
“As party chairman, he must show better respect for their governors.”

Ahead of the 2019 general election, National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has accused the Federal Government of injecting crisis in states controlled by his party and forcing the governors to a deal.

In a statement issued in Abuja, yesterday, Secondus alleged that the federal government has entered into an agreement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the police to cripple PDP states and ensure they lose focus on the 2019 elections.

Secondus said the move which is aimed at causing severe and disabling damage to these states is part of the grand design to distract the PDP from its “focused journey to reclaim power and rescue this country from the inept rule of the APC.”

He singled out Bayelsa State which has had eight police commissioners in three years as well as Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi states where the police leadership were changed randomly.

“In most PDP states, despite the governors being the statutory chief security officers, police commissioners have set up parallel structures to undermine the security of the states just to satisfy their pay masters.

“They have resolved to inject crisis in PDP-controlled states and ensure that our governors who are refusing to play ball, are permanently distracted for their reelections. They have deployed huge cash in these states to either use Labour, or state legislators, to inject crisis, frighten the governors and force them to do a deal with them.”

Secondus also alleged that anti-graft agencies have been “co-opted into this nefarious project,” to make it look as if it is its anti- corruption programme.

He accused acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, of being deeply involved in the reelection campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari and shielding Kano Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, over bribery allegations.

He said: “Nigerians should ask Magu, who is busy campaigning for president Muhammadu Buhari and wearing his campaign badge why only PDP governors are on their radar. Nigerians should ask EFCC why they are looking away at what happened in Kano. If Ganduje had been a PDP governor, would EFCC have kept mum? Nigerians should find out why is it that only PDP Finance commissioners are visitors to the EFCC while their APC counterparts, where corruption is obvious, are glorified?

“Only PDP governors are performing and carrying out people-oriented projects across the country, as can be witnessed by all but, they are the only ones being harassed by Magu and his team.

“We are aware, on good authority, that Magu has vowed to make the reelection of president Buhari his personal project even if Nigerians appear to have turned their back on them.”

The Presidency dismissed Secondus’ allegation and urged him to show respect to the party’s governors.

Presidential aide, Garba Shehu said: “President Buhari will not force anyone to support him. Rather, this is a shocking revelation of the PDP chairman’s rating of governors in their party. Is he, by this, suggesting that they are imbeciles?

“As party chairman, he must show better respect for their governors.”

In his reaction, acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade told Daily Sun the Commission will be run based on facts and not sheer propaganda.

“This is not true. We are doing our jobs professionally. Because there will be elections next year doesn’t mean agencies of government will go to sleep.

“Elections will come and go but the country will remain. Let us not propagate propaganda. Let us base out statements on fact. Put the facts forward, at all times. There is nothing like that…,” said Orilade.

https://sunnewsonline.com/2019-fg-forcing-pdp-govs-to-secret-deal-secondus/?fbclid=IwAR0G7aEiT98bwi61ClfGFwWrF_9NG0ZYEqDpcxFZZQLiA7WXi-5CIBTin_w

Trump too came up.

How can you confirm from unreliable sources?

The National Chairman of Action Alliance party (AA), Dr. Tunde Anifowose-Kelani has rejected the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu‎ as gubernatorial candidate of the party.

Dr. Anifowose-Kelani, who disclosed this in a statement signed and made available to journalists in Abuja on Thursday, maintained that Nwosu is yet to become a registered member of the party, and therefore, can not be recognized as the party’s standard bearer Imo State in the forthcoming general elections.

According to him, “Uche Nwosu is not yet a member of our party and that he cannot come through the back door to be a gubernatorial candidate of the party in Imo State.”

The AA National Chairman further said that the party has rules and regulations guiding its operation, adding that in order to become a registered member, there are due process such person must follow.

Dr. Kelani, therefore, advised that if Uche Nwosu really want to be a registered member of Action Alliance Party, he should do the needful.

“People of such pedigree should know better that junk politicking which would not help towards 2019.”

It will recalled that ‎Uche Nwosu and some other aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Imo State are seeking alternative party to contest elections in 2019 following the crisis that ensued during the APC primaries.

https://sunnewsonline.com/aa-chair-kelani-rejects-okorochas-son-in-law-as-partys-guber-candidates/?fbclid=IwAR08aN0VygEaqnA7g0mD_-uV66-Yev2oOmgtLvgp19M2wss4CmlpAr2tPzc

FarahAideed:


So why does Buhari want to continue with and electoral law that has loop holes when a better one is on his desk

Buhari pointed out the deliberate loop holes created in the new one to satisfy one man ambition.

id911:


Whatever you guys are planting, when the rain decides to fall you won't escape it...

Same way PDP won't escape what they have planted and the rains are falling on them now.

id911:


Which law did they start with and when did they actually start the 2019 elections processes proper? Electoral Bill that was sent to the President since March and he kept on rejecting? Remember before the President was elected he always complained that our electoral system is bad. And, let even me ask you a question, between the National Assembly and the President, who's supposed to carry out electoral reforms?

The electoral bill sent in March was to favour personal ambitions of selected individuals. The president has the right to withheld ascent if a law was drafted for personal reasons.

id911:


It's funny how the so-called educated people are against what will make our electoral process transparent. I can't believe I'm in the same country with these people. Funny enough, these would go to church on Sundays or Mosques on Fridays... Spits on you all that are against such a nice bill!

You don't change the rules in the middle of the game. How can INEC start an electoral process with one law and conclude with another?

We need to salute the guys working behind the scene to review this particular Bill for PMB. They are thorough and they understand the game plan of Mesujamba and his cohorts very well.

Before u start insulting the President, you should know that African Union Protocol strongly disapproves any amendment or introduction of new electoral laws three months to election. PMB is wise to hv rejected d bill.

We all know Nass is playing a game. The bill was initially deliberately delayed, Card reader deliberately omitted. They wanted it signed by d President to perfect their rigging plan. Baba after serious screening discovered this and returned back to them.

As it is, we will use the Electoral law used to conduct 2015 election to conduct 2019 election. This, we will still use card reader in 2019. So, nothing has changed as long as we abide by the rules.

If the electoral bill prepared and used to conduct last election by PDP is good ( as they always say), why is it not good no more?

PDP culture is to Share the money among themselves. Dasuki an example.

mrvitalis:
Buhari is the king of the north, one politician can insult him and be successful elections in the north

The truth is with out buhari pdp has the north but as long as buhari is on the ballot it's a different story

2023 is pdp best chance If they can get it right

True, the North don't vote APC because they like APC, they vote APC because of Buhari.

Atiku is only sellable in one region.

How has the mighty PDP fallen. PDP presidential rally looking like a SUG presidential rally.

looks like a crowd gathering in a compound

Atiku should collect his money back

check this video on Facebook, very scanty.

https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1930008367035256&id=100000783337127&_rdc=1&_rdr

A professor of Political Science at the University of Abuja, Ojochide Abalaka , has faulted the refusal of Senate President Bukola Saraki to swear in Air Marshal Isaac Alfa ( retd) as the senator representing Kogi East in spite of several court rulings affirming his candidature .
Speaking with our correspondent in a telephone chat , Abalaka said the Senate President’ s decision was strange as he did not have the right to choose which court ruling to obey and which to ignore .
He said it was worrisome that despite securing seven out of eight judgments so far in his favour to represent Kogi East senatorial district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly , ‘ Alfa watches proceedings from the gallery while the current occupant , Senator Atai Aidoko is sitting comfortably in the Senate. ’
READ ALSO : You’ re architect of Benue’ s underdevelopment, group tells Akume
He said that Senator Aidoko was not supposed to be in the Senate in the first place because the Supreme Court in its wisdom referred the case back to the High Court, nullifying all the judgments prior to that and further stated that only the High Court pronouncements would determine the authentic senator for Kogi East.
“This means that neither Aidoko nor Alfa was recognised by the Supreme Court as the senator at that time. However, when the High Court eventually delivered judgment , it was in favour of Isaac Alfa . It , therefore , remains a mystery as to why Alfa has not been sworn in , ” he said .
Abalaka said it was surprising that Saraki, who is a beneficiary of court judgment system could brazenly disobey court orders for political expediency .

https://punchng.com/don-knocks-saraki-for-not-swearing-in-kogi-senator/?fbclid=IwAR1F7rrlgVCReSEL2wNUzBJkmT1pxbZhfpTdVlBxW_ARiaV01ILgWYWBX8w

zombieHUNTER:

the point is that this campaign must be issue based

No time for mediocrity

Who America epp... There is Hunger in the land joor

isn't is an issue that a presidential candidate might be corrupt?

Abortions:
HOLYSPIRIT STrike U FOR Dere. oODE!

Holy spirit that couldn't identity a satire?

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor
Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, never told anyone he has been issued an American visa or planning a trip to the United States of America, a top official of his campaign organisation disclosed yesterday.
The top official, who heads one of the major campaign groups for Atiku, described as unfortunate the media hype over Atiku’s ‘collection of U.S visa and planned trip’ to that country when the former vice president had not spoken to anyone about the two issues.
The official, a former minister in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, told Vanguard on condition of anonymity, that Atiku was not one who would want to celebrate the issuance of visa, something he had obtained from many countries and had been flying around the world for many decades.
Stop This Fallacy Against Atiku, Group Cautions Lai Muhammed
“What is so important about a visa? And let me say that Atiku Abubakar did not issue any statement informing anybody that he had been issued a U.S visa and that he had planned to travel to that country to the best of those working with him.
“We just do not know where the media got that information and immediately began to spread all over the space on Sunday until it got to our attention. It is not true that the presidential candidate ever gave such information to anyone,” he added.
Reacting to claims by the opposition that Atiku was afraid of going to the U.S to avoid being arrested and tried for corruption, the official explained that there was no case against the former vice president in the country, adding that if there was any, that country would have raised issues against the former number two citizen of Nigeria.
‘’Don’t forget that Atiku had been living in Washington and if there was anything against him, the U.S law enforcement agents would have charged him before now. So, there is no case against him in the U.S and that is the truth,” the official stated.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/atiku-never-told-anyone-he-collected-us-visa-says-campaign-official/

Why didn't the holy spirit tell him the article he was citing is a SATIRE?

Its easy to see

Is like the door of prophecy of Nigerian pastors is closed or heavenly network is bad on 2019 election?

Former Central Intelligence Agency, CIA’s senior political analyst on sub-Saharan Africa, Judd Devermont, has expressed concern that the US government and the international community were not paying enough attention to Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election.
Atiku and Buhari
According to him, “what happens in Nigeria matters to the United States and the international community. The U.S. and international stakeholders need to step up their game.
“At the minimum, there is a proven playbook to draw on. During the last election in 2015 for instance, U.S. government and other stakeholders feared a repeat of the violence and ballot-rigging that tainted elections in 2003, 2007, and 2011.
Eulogies As Anenih Is Laid To Rest
“Secretary Kerry travelled to Nigeria, and President Obama issued a video message calling for free, fair and peaceful elections. U.S. officials went as far as threatening visa bans.
“These efforts contributed to the first democratic transition between one party and another in Nigerian history,” Devermont said in a commentary published by the U.S Centre for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS.
Devermont, who is currently the director of Africa Programme at CSIS in Washington, D.C., said the international community should replicate these measures, as well as employ new tactics and broaden its engagements.
He added: “Nigeria’s last election, after all, was historic not only because an incumbent was defeated. It was a breakthrough because citizens insisted their votes should count.
“In a world where democracy is in recession, Nigerian commitment to democratic values makes this an election worth paying attention to.
We’ll Not Interfere In Your Election, Britain Tells Nigeria
“Nigeria’s democracy and its overall trajectory is far from secure. Indeed, recent governorship elections underscore Nigeria’s fragility as a democracy.
“The U.S. Institute of Peace has identified several states susceptible to election violence, including in the oil-rich Niger Delta.”
On recent elections
On recent elections in the country, Devermont, said: “Nigeria’s political parties are exhibiting alarming, anti-democratic behaviour. For instance, during the Ekiti governorship election in July, party operatives engaged in blatant vote-buying, which the U.K. High Commissioner condemned as ‘just as bad as ballot stuffing’.
“During the Osun governorship election in September, the ruling party deployed 40,000 policemen to the polls, a manoeuvre widely viewed as disproportionate and designed to harass opposition voters.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/usa-not-paying-enough-attention-to-nigerias-2019-elections-ex-cia-chief/?fbclid=IwAR3D52yNa4afNrsXcKKy_hGFj4Zmujrnq-_DIgaoJHHH9wiL9a6oEJU2Lzg

OBASANJO accompanied Taylor to Nigeria, offered him asylum, assured him of absolute safety. He later gave green light to the Interpol, simultaneously asked Taylor to run. He also told the World Police Taylor's running direction. When Taylor was caught, he called OBJ name 3 times, shook his and said "This man is a wicked man".
OBJ will tell a thief to go and steal and also tell the Police to go and catch the thief!!!!!!

The conspicuous absence of governors from the Southeast, especially those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the turbaning ceremony of their Presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, last week, clearly signposted that they are still in dilemma over their party’s presidential choice and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari.
While this impasse continues, perhaps, one thing that has gone unnoticed since the Supreme Court recognised the Ahmed Makarfi-led executive as the authentic party leadership, and the various consultations that followed the return to peace and stability in the party, is the attitude of Southeast governors towards the party.

This becomes obvious from their continued absence at party meetings, their role during the crisis and support for President Buhari, which soon fuelled rumour that the governors: Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi) and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) have concluded arrangements to plant one leg in APC and the other in PDP.


The feeling that their hide and seek game would end with Atiku’s emergence at the party’s convention last October in Port Harcourt was not to be, as they started raising issues when he (Atiku) chose one of their brothers, former Anambra governor, Peter Obi as his running mate.

Obi’s choice was in line with the party’s decision to zone the Vice Presidential slot to the Southeast. After an independent investigation, which was said to have taken into considerations certain party members that could play the supportive role, Atiku decided on Obi.

But no sooner was the announcement made public than an intense opposition from the governors, allegedly backed by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and others greeted it.

In an emergency meeting held at Ekweremadu’s residence on October 13, 2018, and attended by Governors Ugwuanyi, Umahi, Ikpeazu, former Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, Chief Chris Uba, southeast zonal chairman, Austin Umahi and others, they insisted they were not consulted before the choice was arrived at.

Umahi, who addressed reporters after the meeting, emphasised their anger, when he said: “We heard about the choice in the social media. We are waiting for him (Atiku) to come and brief us and until that is done, we cannot confirm that what we are hearing is true.”

Since that meeting and other consultations that had taken place, Obi had taken it upon himself to visit the governors individually in their various states. He also visited Ekweremadu. However, these visits seem not to have doused the governors’ anger.

On November 14, there was a well-attended meeting of Igbo leaders in Enugu, where the Atiku/Obi mandate was adopted, but none of the governors attended, and they didn’t send representations, even though the event would impact PDP’s drive in the zone.

The gathering, chaired by Constitutional lawyer, Ben Nwabueze was loud that the support for Atiku/Obi and victory at the polls would be in the best interest of Ndigbo. It was stressed that the duo’s restructuring mantra was heartening.

Presenting what he termed a “last wish” for the people of the zone to deliver Atiku/Obi in 2019, Nwabueze said it would make him rest peacefully in his grave, as their victory would launch the zone back into political prominence.

While many savoured the success of that meeting, which went down in history as the largest gathering of Ndigbo in recent times, the governors, apparently trying to extricate them from it, suddenly came up with the idea of visiting President Buhari in Abuja in what they described as continuation of campaign for attention in southeast.

Abuja Meeting And Southeast Governors’ Fidelity

Since last week, when the Southeast governors, Ekweremadu and other APC ministers visited Aso Villa, tongues have been wagging over their fidelity to their own project and party.

Although the governors claimed the visit was to continue their campaign for Federal Government’s attention to challenges in the Southeast, the pledge to boost votes for Buhari in the coming elections in the zone is viewed by many as sabotage.

Credence to the suspicion about their not-too-keen stance on the Atiku/Obi project was in their speech at the occasion, where they assured the President of their continued support; as well as their absence last Sunday in Yola, Adamawa State, where Atiku was turbaned the seventh Waziri.
Notable Nigerians, especially from PDP, were present at the event.

These two scenarios exposed the underbelly of the kind of politics the three PDP governors want to play in 2019.

There is a strong suspicion they would trade off the Atiku/Obi ticket, if it would help them retain offices in 2019, as none of them has publicly solicited the support of their party’s Presidential candidate anywhere.

Umahi, who was made the Coordinator of the campaign in the zone, has not hidden his preference for Buhari over what he termed his “sterling achievements.”

Reacting, however, to allegations that the governors shunned the turbaning ceremony, so as not to be seen as supporting his election, Chairman of Southeast Governors Forum, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, said it was not a boycott.

Responding through his Chief Press Secretary, Emmanuel Uzor, Umahi said he had to attend a function in Lagos, organised by Ndigbo Lagos Foundation.

Uzor said his boss attended the function on behalf of the zone, adding that the Vice Presidential candidate, Obi, also attended the event.

He said: “Other governors were represented, and if anyone boycotted, it should be personal because I know Southeast is not fully controlled by PDP. There are other states controlled by APC and APGA, and there is no way Southeast governors could be said to have boycotted it.”

On his part, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State said his absence was due to previously scheduled appointments.

“Far, far from it, we are working with him. Our governor was at his event last week. He could not come for this one because he has two engagements today, and in fact, I am talking to you from a ceremony,” Mr. Enyinnaya Apollos, Chief Press Secretary to Ikpeazu said.

But Investigations indicated that the desire to retain their offices after the 2019 general elections is responsible for the hide and seek game of the governors.

The fact is that though PDP claimed it is in control of southeast, the level of inroad APC has made since the last general election with these governors in charge in their various states is such that has seriously weakened PDP’s foundation in the zone.

The fear is that with the support APC has received, it would require PDP governors going the extra mile, if they must retain their seat in next year’s elections, and one way of doing this is to continue supporting President Buhari.

Chief Goddy Uwazuruike, President Emeritus, Aka Ikenga Cultural Association, on the alleged governors’ betrayal to Igbo cause, said: “I am perplexed at this seemingly lackadaisical attitude of the governors towards the emergence of Peter Obi. The game in town is to have your party man in Aso Rock. To be seen as ambivalent about supporting publicly your own party presidential candidates is suicidal.

“The governors should know Ndigbo are watching keenly. That Ndigbo are in support of Peter Obi will never be in doubt. We love Peter Obi. Yes, there are amorphous groups gallivanting about as Igbo, but like K.O Mbadiwe said, ‘when the come comes to become, then we shall know who is who.’ Ndigbo are never in doubt where we stand. The governors who are seen as capable of betraying us may find themselves holding the short end of the stick in politics.”

Mr. Ikem Uzo, a political scientist, said time had come for the governors to make their position public.

He said: “It is a crime for them to belong to a political party and from inside, be working for another political party. So far, the governors’ attitude has not helped the cause of PDP in the southeast, otherwise why would they be panicking about their second term, if they had used their first term to serve the people?

“I think it is still that same mentality of poor service, which they have collectively delivered in the last three years that is pushing them against their own party. But they will be disappointed, because APC is not ready to compromise its chances in the zone.”

Ekweremadu’s Grouse

A source said Senator Ekweremadu’s grouse over the Atiku/Obi project might not be unconnected with the party’s failure to consult with him before arriving at the choice of running mate, especially with the role he played in restoring peace and stability in the party.

Sources said apart from midwifing the committee that zoned the presidency to the north and vice to the Southeast, he was instrumental to Atiku returning to PDP to contest the presidential ticket.

Another source, however, said his midwifing the committee and piloting Atiku’s return was to chart a course for becoming the running mate, being the highest office holder in the zone.

Although he had won his party’s ticket to vie for Enugu west senatorial seat, it would appear his enthusiasm for the party has seriously diminished. He was said to have been disappointed when Atiku chose Obi, and jolted by the development, has enlisted the governors’ support against it.

It was, however, gathered that the Deputy Senate President’s anger was not because he wasn’t consulted on the choice, but in the fact that he has nothing to show for his efforts should the party come on stream at the centre in the next dispensation.

An Atiku victory will mean the Southeast producing the Vice President, while other zones will be compensated with Senate President and Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), among others.

Then, Ekweremadu would have to return to Senate as ordinary member and would not be retained as Deputy Senate President, a development that may whittle his support base and influence in the zone.

PDP And Atiku’s Peace Shuttle

THE Guardian gathered that the position taken by Ekweremadu might wreck the party and in the long run, negatively impact the 2019 general elections, especially in the Southeast, should nothing be done to placate him going by his present influence.

This was said to have prompted the meeting of Wednesday at his Apo residence in Abuja by the party’s national leadership with Atiku in attendance. It was gathered that at the meeting, party leaders asked

Ekweremadu to support the choice of Obi in the interest of the zone and Nigeria.

A source in the meeting was quoted as saying: “He was told that Obi does not have any corruption case against him and that he does not belong to any faction of the party.

“He was also told that Obi’s emergence has further raised the acceptability of PDP across the country.”

Whether this visit succeeded in healing the wounds and disenchantment will be seen in due course.

Enters Chekwas Okorie

The National Chairman of United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, whose party is not featuring at the presidential election appears to have been enrolled into the contest to play the role of a spoiler.

Okorie, who visited President Buhari last week in Aso Rock to “adopt” him as his party’s Presidential candidate criticised Igbo leaders that gathered in Enugu to adopt the Atiku/Obi ticket.

Okorie, who has reactivated the moribund Igboezue Cultural Advancement Initiative he founded, told reporters in Enugu that he would mobilise all extant Igbo associations nationwide to ensure that Ndigbo did not vote for a particular party in 2019.

He told a press conference in Enugu how for 16 years, PDP ensured that the entire Southeast became one large area of abandoned construction works, stressing that allowing the party to return to power would be a reminder of days of political servitude.

He said: “If this is not deliberate, then what is the explanation for the very painful fact that in 16 years, there was no project that was started and completed by PDP government in any part of Southeastern geo political zone? We are aware that PDP has an unwritten policy that no Igbo person will ever be President of Nigeria until 150 years after the Nigeria-Biafra war.

“The manner with which the military junta of Abdulsalam Abubakar presided over the massive deceit of the entire Igbo people by PDP in short-changing the late Dr. Alex Ekwueme in his bid to become the party’s presidential candidate in 1999 was an unprecedented and biggest political 419 ever perpetrated against any race in Nigeria by a political party and its military sponsors.”

Reacting to the development, however, a former Minister of health and one of the Igbo leaders that called the Enugu meeting, where Atiku/Obi ticket was endorsed, Prof ABC Nwosu, insisted that Buhari and APC pushed Ndigbo into supporting and endorsing the aspiration of Atiku/Obi.

He stated that the total rejection and exclusion of the zone from the scheme of things in the current administration was responsible, and that noting was being done to remedy the situation.

He, however, called on those still opposed to the choice of Obi to start learning to live with it, as according to him, “It is Atiku’s prerogative to choose a running mate and he did so. I think the declaration of Igbo leaders at Nike Lake Hotel on November 14 2018 was clear evidence that Ndigbo appreciates Atiku Abubakar and the PDP for assuaging the feelings of people of the Southeast.

“The message from that one-day summit was loud and very clear. The simple truth nationally and internationally is that the choice of Mr. Peter Obi has been well received and generally, Ndigbo are very unhappy at the way APC government has completely excluded them, especially in the security agencies in the past four years.

“Even Igbo ministers know this. So, the endorsement of Atiku/Obi by Ndigbo should come as no surprise to anybody, especially given the 97 to 5 percent policy of this administration.”

As it is, unless something new develops otherwise, what is on ground does not suggest that Ugwuanyi, Umahi and Ikpeazu are ready to work for Atiku/Obi victory in 2019


https://t.guardian.ng/politics/southeast-governors-still-sulking-over-atikus-choice-of-running-mate/

mumu