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Atiku Demands Open Primaries, rejects calls to step down for a southern Candidate

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly rejected mounting calls from political leaders and stakeholders in Southern Nigeria urging him to step aside in favour of a Southern presidential candidate.

The demand, which has gained traction among members of the coalition, is anchored on the principle of equity, justice, and rotation of power, with many arguing that the South deserves to complete its turn at the presidency.

In a statement released after a closed-door meeting with leaders of ADC, the former Vice President declared that he would not bow to pressure, and called on the coalition to uphold democracy by allowing open and transparent primaries. “I will not be pressured into abandoning my constitutional right to aspire.

Let every qualified member test their popularity through a credible primary. Zoning must not be used to silence competence," Atiku stated emphatically. However, this declaration appears to have rattled the fragile coalition, triggering a fierce backlash from members of the Obidient Movement, who insist that Peter Obi remains the only acceptable candidate. Across social media platforms, Obidients have declared that “it’s either Obi or we pull out,” they are threatening to pull out of the coalition if Atiku insists on contesting. What began as a strategic alliance against the ruling party now faces serious cracks, with party insiders warning that the coalition may collapse before it even begins.

While Atiku’s camp argues for merit-based contest, Obidients accuse him of attempting to hijack the structure and sabotage the collective dream. Political watchers say the coalition is on the brink, as both sides refuse to shift ground. If not quickly addressed, this friction may derail efforts to build a united front ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Atiku will never step down for anybody. Atiku will always have his way in any party he joined.

Atiku is just a selfish person who detest Southern Nigeria with all his might.

Same man that came as northern candidate during Jonathan regime is now leading some failed Southern politician to unsit a president from southern extraction.

To think that Atiku has been contesting for president since 1993, and he never wins makes it nauseating. What exactly is this man's mission that he must become the president by fire by force?

That coalition is rubbish and a joke if they had no consensus on who their candidate will be
I mean what's the need? It's very disappointing.

Atiku must be commended for this bold decision.

If anyone is afraid of primaries, he should not join the coalition.

We saw how Atiku was going round to visit Buhari twice and told Buhari he was forming a coalition. He also took Namadi Sambo to visit Rauf Aregbesola. He led the formationof the coalition.

Suddenly, Obidients are dictating terms of joining the coalition. One of them misled the public that Obidients constitute 70% of Nigerians. How he reached that figure is unknown to any rational thinking person. Obidients are united in their demand for Atiku to step down for Obi.

Why should Atiku do that?

Let us do a geopolitical breakdown of the 2023 elections:

1. Northwest. 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Atiku. 3rd position: Kwankwaso
2. Northeast. 1st position: Atiku. 2nd position: Tinubu. Distant 3rd position: Obi
3. Northcentral. 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Obi. 3rd position: Atiku
4. Southwest: 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Atiku. 3rd position: Obi
5. Southeast: 1st position: Obi. Distant 2nd position: Tinubu. Distant 3rd position: Atiku
6. Southsouth: 1st position: Obi. 2nd position: Tinubu. 3rd position: Atiku

Obi won two zones, and came second in one zone. Atiku won one zone and came 2nd in one. However in the core north, Obi was annihilated that he was not even in top three in the northwest (the largest voting bloc). So it doesnt make political and electoral sense to ask Atiku to step down for Obi.

Dear Atiku, your greatest opponent in 2023 was Obi, not Tinubu. Obi took your votes and ruined your chance. If the coalition fails, fight to win back 50% of the votes Obi took from you.

Anyone who wants to be president of Nigeria and is afraid of competition to fly a party's flag should form his own party and give himself the ticket.

PITI OBI - 2027 to 2028

Amaechi - 2028 to 2029

El rufai - 2029 to 2030

Atiku - 2030 to 2031

Atiku no cry.... problem solved

Anything different from an Atiku/Obi ticket and coalition has failed.
Atiku would not step down for anyone and Obi cannot agree to a 4 year single term.
Atiku/Obi is the only ticket that can beat Tinubu. Any other combination would ruin the coalition movement and break the votes up into atleast 6 different candidates.

Last time Atiku gave almost $40 k to each pdp delegates. This time around Atiku will give $100k to each delegate. My question is where did an ordinary retire custom officer get all this money?

NIGERIANS BE WISE

Watch Peter Gringori run back to Abure cap in hand, begging for reabsorption into the Laborers party.

Obidients would be the angriest people alive right now. Folks were busy thinking the flag would be handed to their last candidate on a silver platter.

press9jatv:
Atiku will never step down for anybody. Atiku will always have his way in any party he joined.

Na obidients i pity pass, dem go cry like bush babies. Atiku will have his ways in the primary and lose in the general elections

Ttalk:
Atiku is just a selfish person who detest Southern Nigeria with all his might.

Same man that came as northern candidate during Jonathan regime is now leading some failed Southern politician to unsit a president from southern extraction.

How is he selfish? You guys just open mouth and say rubbish all the time..... What is wrong in having ambition? It's because you don't have ambition that's why you are where you are....

emkz:
Atiku must be commended for this bold decision.

If anyone is afraid of primaries, he should not join the coalition.

We saw how Atiku was going round to visit Buhari twice and told Buhari he was forming a coalition. He also took Namadi Sambo to visit Rauf Aregbesola. He led the formationof the coalition.

Suddenly, Obidients are dictating terms of joining the coalition. One of them misled the public that Obidients constitute 70% of Nigerians. How he reached that figure is unknown to any rational thinking person. Obidients are united in their demand for Atiku to step down for Obi.

Why should Atiku do that?

Let us do a geopolitical breakdown of the 2023 elections:

1. Northwest. 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Atiku. 3rd position: Kwankwaso
2. Northeast. 1st position: Atiku. 2nd position: Tinubu. Distant 3rd position: Obi
3. Northcentral. 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Obi. 3rd position: Atiku
4. Southwest: 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Atiku. 3rd position: Obi
5. Southeast: 1st position: Obi. Distant 2nd position: Tinubu. Distant 3rd position: Atiku
6. Southsouth: 1st position: Obi. 2nd position: Tinubu. 3rd position: Atiku

Obi won two zones, and came second in one zone. Atiku won one zone and came 2nd in one. However in the core north, Obi was annihilated that he was not even in top three in the northwest (the largest voting bloc). So it doesnt make political and electoral sense to ask Atiku to step down for Obi.

Dear Atiku, your greatest opponent in 2023 was Obi, not Tinubu. Obi took your votes and ruined your chance. If the coalition fails, fight to win back 50% of the votes Obi took from you.

Many don’t know Atiku has the mindset that it would be an insult for Obi to be president before him. He sees Obi as his ‘Nwa boy’, those calling for Atiku to step down won’t do same if they were in Atiku’s position

emkz:
Atiku must be commended for this bold decision.

If anyone is afraid of primaries, he should not join the coalition.

We saw how Atiku was going round to visit Buhari twice and told Buhari he was forming a coalition. He also took Namadi Sambo to visit Rauf Aregbesola. He led the formationof the coalition.

Suddenly, Obidients are dictating terms of joining the coalition. One of them misled the public that Obidients constitute 70% of Nigerians. How he reached that figure is unknown to any rational thinking person. Obidients are united in their demand for Atiku to step down for Obi.

Why should Atiku do that?

Let us do a geopolitical breakdown of the 2023 elections:

1. Northwest. 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Atiku. 3rd position: Kwankwaso
2. Northeast. 1st position: Atiku. 2nd position: Tinubu. Distant 3rd position: Obi
3. Northcentral. 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Obi. 3rd position: Atiku
4. Southwest: 1st position: Tinubu. 2nd position: Atiku. 3rd position: Obi
5. Southeast: 1st position: Obi. Distant 2nd position: Tinubu. Distant 3rd position: Atiku
6. Southsouth: 1st position: Obi. 2nd position: Tinubu. 3rd position: Atiku

Obi won two zones, and came second in one zone. Atiku won one zone and came 2nd in one. However in the core north, Obi was annihilated that he was not even in top three in the northwest (the largest voting bloc). So it doesnt make political and electoral sense to ask Atiku to step down for Obi.

Dear Atiku, your greatest opponent in 2023 was Obi, not Tinubu. Obi took your votes and ruined your chance. If the coalition fails, fight to win back 50% of the votes Obi took from you.

See response. All the coalition members are playing you folks with their counter positions so as not allow you folks get the real gist. Atiku and Obi know the blueprint of the coalition and they will act the decoy only to support the plan that will kick out APC

Moferere:
Na obidients i pity pass, dem go cry like bush babies. Atiku will have his ways in the primary and lose in the general elections

yes. It's because of Atiku followers that keeps following him and collecting the huge money Atiku while in government with Obj .

press9jatv:
BREAKING NEWS...
Atiku Demands Open Primaries, rejects calls to step down for a southern Candidate

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly rejected mounting calls from political leaders and stakeholders in Southern Nigeria urging him to step aside in favour of a Southern presidential candidate.

The demand, which has gained traction among members of the coalition, is anchored on the principle of equity, justice, and rotation of power, with many arguing that the South deserves to complete its turn at the presidency.

In a statement released after a closed-door meeting with leaders of ADC, the former Vice President declared that he would not bow to pressure, and called on the coalition to uphold democracy by allowing open and transparent primaries. “I will not be pressured into abandoning my constitutional right to aspire.

Let every qualified member test their popularity through a credible primary. Zoning must not be used to silence competence," Atiku stated emphatically. However, this declaration appears to have rattled the fragile coalition, triggering a fierce backlash from members of the Obidient Movement, who insist that Peter Obi remains the only acceptable candidate. Across social media platforms, Obidients have declared that “it’s either Obi or we pull out,” they are threatening to pull out of the coalition if Atiku insists on contesting. What began as a strategic alliance against the ruling party now faces serious cracks, with party insiders warning that the coalition may collapse before it even begins.

While Atiku’s camp argues for merit-based contest, Obidients accuse him of attempting to hijack the structure and sabotage the collective dream. Political watchers say the coalition is on the brink, as both sides refuse to shift ground. If not quickly addressed, this friction may derail efforts to build a united front ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Atiku doing the Lords work for BAT.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 .

He gathered everyone into the coalition just to set them up.

slivertongue:
See response. All the coalition members are playing you folks with their counter positions so as not allow you folks get the real gist. Atiku and Obi know the blueprint of the coalition and they will act the decoy only to support the plan that will kick out APC

This is the position they held.

Dele Momodu claimed they were holding meetings in secret. That they entered one hotel at different times. Look, the outcry from within ADC has shown that those promoting coalition are ill-prepared to push it where there are no personal benefits. All these talks about being smart, playing others, etc, are just self-consolatory adulations of a floundering coalition. Everyone in the coalition is testing the waters with half toe.

Atiku can never be trusted. All he wants is a taste of power, after which he will deal with all his long term enemies.

If Obi wants to act like Tinubu, he should allow Atiku to spoil the remaining life of the country while he acquires enough war chest to start his 8-year tenure..

I suspect BAT might pass a bill for 6-years single term if he wins the 2027 election.

press9jatv:
Atiku will never step down for anybody. Atiku will always have his way in any party he joined.

And he will fail again. The South must complete eight years after buhari's eight year regime.

A win/win situation for Tinubu..

Anyhow dem spin it, it will always favour Tinubu..

sleek214:
How is he selfish? You guys just open mouth and say rubbish all the time..... What is wrong in having ambition? It's because you don't have ambition that's why you are where you are....

They’re cowards. They’re against primaries. They’re looking for whom to bring the ticket to their doorstep in Agulu..

emkz:
This is the position they held.

Dele Momodu claimed they were holding meetings in secret. That they entered one hotel at different times. Look, the outcry from within ADC has shown that those promoting coalition are ill-prepared to push it where there are no personal benefits. All these talks about being smart, playing others, etc, are just self-consolatory adulations of a floundering coalition. Everyone in the coalition is testing the waters with half toe.

The coalition is simply between 6.9 million votes band 6.1 million votes. Others are there to add more value to 2023 performance. They won't show you there roadmap. There's is to bicker, act in manners that will make APC think they ain't united but underground they are working. The coalition only came to public knowledge last week but has been building up since last year. They ain't naive as you think. It's the APC that is naive

I swear this ADC coalition is looking like a set-up. No wonder PBAT has been gallivanting from St Lucia to Brazil like nothing dey happen

slivertongue:
The coalition is simply between 6.9 million votes band 6.1 million votes. Others are there to add more value to 2023 performance. They won't show you there roadmap. There's is to bicker, act in manners that will make APC think they ain't united but underground they are working. The coalition only came to public knowledge last week but has been building up since last year. They ain't naive as you think. It's the APC that is naive

This one na the Senior Special Adviser to Coalition on Keyboard affairs 🤣🤣🤣

The only person that can control and also defeat Atiku is BAT. He did it in 2014, during APC primaries when Atiku wanted to dollarise the primaries, but Bola Tinubu warned the delegates that Bubu is the choice candidate, so they dare not betray. All those times, Atiku might have been wondering what was in it for PBAT due to Atiku's lack of foresight. In 2023, PBAT also defeated Atiku, so 2027 is just an appearance match for PBAT. Victory is almost certain for PBAT.

zero8zero:
This one na the Senior Special Adviser to Coalition on Keyboard affairs 🤣🤣🤣

Don't panic live will be good for you under the coalition.

Nigeria’s two main opposition leaders, former presidential candidate of the PDP in 2023 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party’s (LP) counterpart, Mr. Peter Obi, have identified with the new political party.

Fake news.


If Atiku wanted open primaries, he will remain in PDP.


Atiku will step down for Peter Obi.

Atiku is right. It is his constitutional right. If you think you are worthy and qualified , you should be willing to submit your self for the primary.

LoL...what makes you think the powers that be are not aware of their activities right from when PBAT was sworn in? Well , anything to make you happy is fine..

slivertongue:
The coalition is simply between 6.9 million votes band 6.1 million votes. Others are there to add more value to 2023 performance. They won't show you there roadmap. There's is to bicker, act in manners that will make APC think they ain't united but underground they are working. The coalition only came to public knowledge last week but has been building up since last year. They ain't naive as you think. It's the APC that is naive

I will rather prefer Tinubu to continue than Atiku to become president. Where is the equity, where is the fairness will he even be better than Tinubu. It is either Peter Obi or Tinubu will continue

A Game is been played here. APC will think that Coalition are in disagreement until they all rally round Obi.

It was obvious from day one that the demonic coalition was a trap...I was not surprised that many people had multiple orgasms on hearing the announcement...as reality sets in , they are now attacking and threatening the arrow head of the demonic coalition to step down for their preferred man...what an irony😁😁😁😚😚

funshint:
I swear this ADC coalition is looking like a set-up. No wonder PBAT has been gallivanting from St Lucian to Brazil like nothing dey happen