{"id":104047,"date":"2023-04-04T22:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104047"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:15:45","slug":"kogi-pdp-govship-primary-atiku-has-no-anointed-aspirant-urges-level-playing-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/kogi-pdp-govship-primary-atiku-has-no-anointed-aspirant-urges-level-playing-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi PDP gov&#8217;ship primary: Atiku has no anointed aspirant, urges level playing field\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar has called for a le CV El playing ground the process of electing the gubernatorial flag bearer for the Peoples Democratic Party in the upcoming Kogi State governorship election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atiku also said that he has no anointed aspirant as against media report which suggested so.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, he noted that, &#8220;Atiku is a consummate democrat and the hallmark of his political struggles has been for the enablement of internal democracy in party politics.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;It is therefore absurd to suggest that Atiku has a preferred candidate in the primary election to produce the governorship candidate of the PDP in the Kogi State election &#8211; or in any primary election, for that matter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;For the avoidance of any doubts, Atiku Abubakar has no anointed candidate in the Kogi State primary election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;He believes that the decision to elect the flag bearer of the PDP in the coming election in the Confluence State is the responsibility of electors in that primary election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;He therefore urges anyone amongst the candidates to desist from peddling influence with his name and, indeed, calls on the media not to lay prostrate to any blackmail against him.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Atiku believes that all the aspirants in the election are up to the task of flying the flag of our great party, the PDP and the electors should be given the unfettered rights to perform their constituted duty of electing the best person for the PDP.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign, Senator Dino Melaye is one of the aspirants and it is believed that his closeness to Atiku will give him an edge over other aspirants.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar has called for a le CV El playing ground the process&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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