MURIC’s congratulatory message was contained in a press release issued by the director of the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Wednesday, 8th June, 2022.
Browsing: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
The contest for the PDP’s presidential ticket had somehow been made out to be a fight of the south versus the north, with Gov Nyesom Wike of Rivers State representing the South and Abubakar, the septuagenarian from Adamawa State, the North.
Afegbua, a vocal critic of the former Vice President, described the comment as self serving, even as he called on the leadership of the party to zone the 2023 Presidential ticket to the South.
He gave the assurance in Bauchi on Sunday when Saraki and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, also a PDP presidential hopeful, paid a consultative visit to Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State
Although the former Vice President and some of his key support groups have been criss-crossing the nation in a bid to consult critical interests, socio-political blocks, opinion leaders and influencers within and outside the PDP, he is yet to make his 2023 ambition public officially.
I deem it necessary to defend myself against the calculated propaganda to malign my character and position me in a bad light and damage my name.
According to Afegbua’s statement titled “2023: Atiku and the Age of Methuselah Politics” the former commissioner in Edo State under Adams Oshiomhole and erstwhile aide of the former military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, posited that “it will be immoral for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to continue to express interest in seeking election in the 2023 presidential election having attained the retirement age.”
Afegbua who played a prominent role in the crisis that led to the suspension of former PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus also tasked the National Working Committee, NWC of the party led by Senator Iyorchia Ayu to leverage on its good start by going South to get its Presidential flag bearer in the next elections.
Kalu, in a goodwill message issued on Saturday in Abuja, acknowledged Abubakar’s contributions to nation’s building in various capacities.
First, let me say that I really would have expected Alhaji Abubakar to at least get the full text of my comments before his public refutal of my views.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the plaintiff instituted the suit in 2019 challenging Abubakar’s eligibility to contest for president.
Such a remark, coming from Obasanjo, carried some approbatory weight simply because of his pedigree as former military head of state and former President. Recall that Buhari worked as Federal Commissioner of Petroleum and Natural Resources in the late 1970s under Obasanjo as Head of State.
This was conveyed to him via a letter signed by the Director General, Ambassador Aliyu Bin Abbas, dated April 4, 2021.
The book launch, which was held on Monday at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, witnessed a congregation of high profile people from different walks of life.
Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 elections, said this in his New Year message to Nigerians on Thursday.
Abubakar said this in Monday in Minna, the Niger State capital, where he met with former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, declared Buhari the winner of the contest in which his closest rival was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
The position of the State was disclosed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, who led a delegation of the State to the ImeObi
The Waziri Adamawa regrets these deaths and is pained that those who have dedicated their lives to securing Nigeria are being cut down in their prime. He condoles with their families and survivors and prays that God grants them fortitude and strength at such a trying time.
The Chairman of Atikunation South Africa, Funsho Ademoye, made this known at a news briefing in Johannesburg, South Africa