The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Atiku Abubakar said on Sunday that “I am moved to tears that in the midst of deep divisions and deliberate use of instrumentalities of state to set our people against themselves in the last three and a half years, responsible and respected leaders across Nigeria have agreed to come together for the purpose of endorsing my candidature for the February 16th,2019 Presidential elections.”
Mr. Abubakar said this in a statement while reacting to the powerful endorsement his candidacy got from influential socio-cultural groups across the country, promising to promote an inclusive government if elected president.
Five top socio-cultural organisations in the country, the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Afenifere and Middle Belt Forum (MBF), had on Sunday endorsed the PDP flagbearer for president.
Mr. Abubakar has shown that he will restructure the country if given the mandate, they explained after a meeting at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja.
Abubakar later said the endorsement is “a loud statement that there is hope for our country”.
He added that he is buoyed to lead a pan-Nigerian team if elected, and that he has been chosen to unite our people “and exactly that I will.”
He said, “I will run a properly federated Nigeria through constitutional reforms to bring out the best from ALL sections of Nigeria to make Nigeria work again like in the past when the Saudi Royal family came to Nigeria to access Medicare,” he said.
“We will promote an inclusive Nigeria based on productivity that every section of Nigeria will bring out the best under their soil, and in their brain to make Nigeria assume its position in Africa and the global community.
“It would be 100% for every section of Nigeria as I would not understand any arithmetic outside that.”
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