Former Vice President of Nigeria and the Peoples Democracy Party presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said the All Progressives Congress is a party of deceivers and blindfolded Nigerians to striking poverty.
Abubakar said this while addressing hundreds of youths championing his political ambition at Lamido Cinema in Yola, Adamawa State.
The youths came to endorse him for the 2019 presidential election, positioning him to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
The youths organised a road show for him.
It was organised by one of his support groups, Atiku/Obi Vanguard for Good Governance, which urged him to fight hard and defeat Buhari in the 2019 elections.
Abubakar reechoed the need to vote out Buhari to his supporters as the best option for Nigeria as his government did not provide anything tangible to Nigerian youths but only to inflict untold pains and so much suffering on the country.
Abubakar said Buhari had failed the country in too many ways and the youths had it as their duty to vote him out.
He waved as the supporters cheered: “Buhari must go! Buhari must go!”
He reiterated his commitment to high participation of youths and women in his government should he win election and become president, specifying that youths would get 40 per cent participation and women 30 per cent.
Earlier in his address, the Coordinator of Atiku Obi Vanguard for Good Governance, Leader Teneka, said so many negative things had happened since Buhari became president that he ought to be voted out.
Teneka said: “It is no longer news that our country has been designated world extreme poverty capital.
“And we’ve been declared one of the most dangerous countries to be born in.
“It is also no longer news that massive and unabated corruption continues to fester.
“We are more divided as a country now than we have ever been.”
Teneka urged his fellow youths to rally for Abubakar and ensure his election as the next president.