Former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to focus on strengthening
and rebuilding the party.
In a tweet on Saturday morning,
the presidential candidate of the opposition party in the 2019 election said
the time is not yet ripe for the discussion of elections.
He said the party’s priority at
the moment should be on how to tackle the challenges ahead.
“Our preoccupation at this point
in the @OfficialPDPNig should not focus on elections, but on rebuilding and
strengthening our party for the challenges ahead of us,” Abubakar wrote on
Twitter.
Our preoccupation at this point in the @OfficialPDPNig should not focus on elections, but on rebuilding and strengthening our party for the challenges ahead of us. -AA— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) January 4, 2020
Atiku’s tweet comes after reports
of threat over zoning of the 2023 general election.
Two days ago, Walid Jibrin,
chairman of the board of trustees (BoT) of the PDP, had said some people
threatened him for not endorsing Atiku as the party’s presidential candidate
for 2023.
While announcing that the party
would soon commence the search for its presidential candidate in the next
general election, Jibrin had said the candidate could be from any zone.
But speaking to journalists on
Thursday in Kaduna, the elder statesman said he had received calls for not
saying the party’s presidential ticket would be zoned to the north-east, where
Atiku is from.
Jibrin said he was tagged a
traitor for failing to declare Atiku as his party’s preferred candidate.
“I have received calls from some
people threatening my life over my coming out not to mention that the
presidency of this country be zoned to the north-east,” he had said.
“They were saying that I am a
traitor that I should have come out to say that it is only Atiku Abubakar
because I said that Atiku was already overthrown by the supreme court. They
said for that I should say Atiku is the man that I want.”
In November, the national working
committee (NWC) of the party, said the PDP would not stop any of its members,
irrespective of geographical zones, from vying to clinch the party’s
presidential ticket.
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