Former Aviation Minister Fani-Kayode has confirmed that
there are threats to the ambition of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku
Abubakar, to become the standard-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
in the 2023 presidential election.
Fani-Kayode made this known in an interview with Dele Momodu
on Monday night.
Fani-Kayode stated that Atiku, who was the PDP presidential
candidate in 2019, is qualified and young at heart to rule the country in 2023
but there are many who don’t want him as the choice of PDP.
Fani-Kayode said: “What I can tell you is that there are
lots of people who want Atiku to return in 2023 and there are lots of people
who are looking elsewhere.”
The Chieftain of the PDP, however, added that he believes
power should return to the south in 2023 for the purpose of equitability and
also to solve the problem of marginalization allegedly suffered by other
regions under President Muhammadu Buhari.
He noted that power to the south was the best way for
Nigeria but emphasized that the north have a better chance of the throne in
2023.
According to Fani-Kayode: The power of “collaboration” gives
the north an advantage over other regions.
He said: “The northerners are far more adept in
collaborating with one another, sitting down quietly and planning for power
than those of us in the south who are mainly divided, suspicious of one another
and who run one another down.
“I’m not attacking
southerners, I’m a southerner and I love my people just like I love all
Nigerians but the reality is that when you have a southern unity then u can
talk with far more strength.”
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