Former Vice President and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has openly declared his intention to contest the position of the President in 2019.
Abubakar made this known on Tuesday during a visit to the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.
On the trip with Abubakar were leaders of the PDP, who were in the state to consult with chieftains of the party in Rivers State.
He said he was offering himself to set the country on the path of growth after “the serial failure” of the All Progressives Congress.
He said that since 2015, the APC Federal Government had destroyed the education, health and infrastructural sectors through poor budgetary allocations and releases.
He said: “Since 2015, we have not seen a 100-kilometre road constructed by the APC Federal Government anywhere in the country.”
Abubakar pointed out that the APC Federal Government had destroyed the foundation of unity and cohesion of the country.
He said: “I have never seen Nigeria so divided along religious, ethnic and regional lines.
“This division is as a result of the mismanagement of the APC.”
Wike urged all PDP members irrespective of their status to ensure that the march to the Presidential Villa was not truncated by disunity.
He urged presidential aspirants on the platform of the PDP to contest within acceptable limits, adding that the race should not be a do-or-die affair, but a movement to oust a failed APC Federal Government.
Wike said: “Every presidential aspirant must see himself as a member of the larger PDP family.
“We must do everything to ensure that the PDP returns to the Presidential Villa in 2019.
“Only one aspirant will become a candidate.
“We will do everything to ensure that the party comes out with a candidate that has a track record to upstage the APC.”
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