{"id":74027,"date":"2020-06-08T15:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=74027"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:31:25","slug":"atiku-abubakar-to-contest-2023-presidential-election-son-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/atiku-abubakar-to-contest-2023-presidential-election-son-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Abubakar To Contest 2023 Presidential  Election, Son Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Adamu Atiku-Abubakar, son of the Presidential candidate of the Peoples<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 Presidential election, has revealed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">that his father, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will contest for the number one<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">office, in 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Commissioner for Works and Energy disclosed this while presenting<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the scorecard of his ministry, as the administration of Governor Ahmadu<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Finitiri celebrates one year in office.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cPersonally, I don\u2019t see anything wrong with my father contesting for<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the presidency. In 2023, my father will be aspiring to the number one<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">office in the land because he has been an astute, strategic,\u00a0 master<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">politician for almost four decades\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">On February 27, 2019, Atiku lost the presidential race to President<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Buhari. 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