The All Progressives Congress (APC) described the statement
credited to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Atiku Abubakar as a decisive attack on the country’s national unity, worse than
he had inflicted on the PDP.
It added that the statement was, however, not surprising
coming from a desperate and serial failed candidate for the office of
President.
Atiku had on Saturday at the Arewa town hall policy dialogue
at the weekend in Kaduna, said, “What the average Northerner needs is somebody
who is from the North … he doesn’t need a Yoruba Candidate or an Igbo
candidate.”
Reacting in a statement issued Sunday by the National
Publicity Secretary of APC, Felix Morka, the party said the desperation by
Atiku showed that he cannot be entrusted with the most important job of
President, which core duty is uniting and working in the best interest of all
in an ethno-religious pluralistic society as Nigeria.
He said what was even more confounding was that Atiku has
touted himself to be on a mission to unify Nigeria, but added that the cat has
finally been let out of the bag of him that pays lip service to unity while
working hard to undermine the nation’s unity.
Morka said the country’s Northern citizens and patriots know
far better than Atiku thinks, and would not walk down that slippery slope with
him.
Morka said: “Evidently, Atiku seeks to inflict on Nigeria
discord and strife of a worse kind than he has inflicted on his PDP. ”
The Spokesperson noted that against the dictates of his
party’s constitution on the principle of power rotation between the North and
South, Atiku wrested presidential candidacy and left his party in fractious
disharmony.
“It is beyond the pale for a senior citizen and a former
Vice President of the Federal Republic to so brazenly instigate strife and
disunity in our country in pursuit of his befuddled political self interest.
“If, as Atiku believes, the average Northerner needs a
Northern President now, after a Northern President, when will they ever not
need a Northern President? What does Atiku think the average Southerner needs?
Why is it about what the average Northerner needs, or even what the average
Southerner may need? Why is it not about what Nigeria and Nigerians need?
Nigerians need bold and visionary leadership anchored on a firm commitment to
transcendental national unity, over and above ethnic or sectional obsessions.
“Atiku’s words ring loud of extreme and mindless
desperation, and such an extremely desperate man cannot and must not be
entrusted with the most important job of President – a job which core duty is
that of leading, uniting and working in the best interest of all in an
ethno-religious pluralistic society as Nigeria. Our country does not need this
kind of highly inflammable rhetoric now or ever,” he stated.
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