{"id":99611,"date":"2022-09-23T17:28:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99611"},"modified":"2022-09-23T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T16:28:55","slug":"pdp-crisis-atikus-presidential-ambition-slipping-away-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-crisis-atikus-presidential-ambition-slipping-away-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP crisis: Atiku&#8217;s presidential ambition slipping away &#8211; APC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as effort in futility, the 2023 presidential ambition of the standard bearer\u00a0 of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Atiku Abubakar.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a statement issued Friday by Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council, the ruling party noted that &#8220;another bid for the presidency of our country by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar is slipping away.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Onanuga, who\u00a0 hinged his position on the effect of the internal crisis rocking the party with regards to the grievances of Rivers State governor, Nyesome Wike and his faction, maintained that the battle of attrition &#8220;has undermined any momentum the PDP candidate had hoped to build.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APC presidential spokesperson averred that the opposition party is in total disarray even before the official kickoff of electioneering campaign, adding that the signs are too ominous for Atiku as a report by the\u00a0 Economic Intelligence Unit had predicted\u00a0 another trashing for him in the forthcoming polls.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He accused the PDP presidential candidate of violating his party\u2019s code for power rotation between the north and south and instead grabbed the PDP ticket without a modicum of sensibilities about the country&#8217;s national ethos, stressing that\u00a0 Alhaji Atiku is now faced with the karma of his inordinate ambition.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The PDP has imploded in a battle of attrition, the result of which is predictable. The ongoing fraticidal\u00a0 war where a faction of the party being led by the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is engaging Atiku in a fight to finish has undermined any momentum the PDP candidate had hoped to build. With further loss of confidence in PDP by its own members who can not find any redeeming feature in the fast disappearing party, it is crystal clear that Atiku&#8217;s latest bid for the Nigeria&#8217;s top job has hit the rocks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A pillar of Atiku&#8217;s campaign is the claim of being a unifier and nationalist. That bogus claim has now been discredited, even within his party as the disaffected members cry for justice and inclusivity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Instead of the perennially running and perennially failing\u00a0 candidate to offer them some sop, he has rebuffed them, pleading that he could not grant their request for justice.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Surely a man who cannot resolve a genuine dispute among his party members, who cannot forge an entente among them, cannot be expected to unify our country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Instead of being a unifier, Atiku is now a divider-in-chief.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;His campaign on this score is heading for a still birth, just as some of his programmes have been found to be nothing new, as they are already being implemented by the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The former Vice President created the crisis for himself, by\u00a0 pushing the fallacy that only a northern candidate can win the presidency for his party, despite the open record that southerners, when they network with their northern compatriots can also win the election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Former leaders, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan demonstrated this in 1999, 2003 and 2011.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As a campaign, we can only pity former Vice President Atiku for the self-inflicted injury he invited unto himself.\u00a0 Chinua Achebe, the very accomplished novelist in one of his classics, Arrow of God, wrote that a man who brought ant-infested faggots into the homestead should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Atiku brought this unto himself and we dare say he can kiss his ill-fated presidential bid goodbye.&#8221;<\/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>Ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as effort in futility, the 2023 presidential ambition of the standard bearer\u00a0 of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Atiku Abubakar. 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