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Northern group to Atiku: Drop Obi or forget 2019

Alleges former governor anti-North, IPOB sponsor

23rd October 2018
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Northern group to Atiku: Drop Obi or forget 2019

Atiku Abubakar, PDP presidential candidate

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National chairman of the northern group Elliot Afiyo made this known in Abeokuta on Tuesday while speaking with the media

Laide Raheem, Abeokuta

The Northern Youths Leaders Forum (NYLF) has called on the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to reconsider his choice of Peter Obi as running mate, if he hopes to enjoy the total support of the north and win the 2019 general elections.

READ ALSO: Why Northern youths won’t support Buhari in 2019 – Shettima, AYCF president

The group, which says it serves as the umbrella body for 46 northern youth organisations, with over six million members, equally threatened to mobilize massively against the PDP if Abubakar sticks with Obi as his deputy.

National chairman of the northern group Elliot Afiyo made this known in Abeokuta on Tuesday while speaking with the media.

Afiyo, saying that the body had been instrumental to the electoral victories of successive presidents since 1999, including the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, stated that NYLF played a critical role in reconciling former president Olusegun Obasanjo with Atiku, who was his vice president.

The group, he added, had with Obasanjo on Monday night to make its position known on the matter.

He explained that, apart from the ruckus Obi’s choice has caused in the South East, which according to him is largely responsible for the impending defection of Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu from the PDP, Obi is viewed as anti-North and a major sponsor of Igbo separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by northerners

Afiyo further added that over 70 percent of Emirs and other traditional rulers in the north will not support Atiku’s choice of deputy, maintaining that the PDP would fail to produce the next president should the party eventually go with the Atiku/Obi ticket.

“Atiku is an experienced politician, and he knows what happened and, as a northern Nigerian, he cannot ignore the group. I have spoken to almost all the South East governors and they told me that they remained in the PDP because of their governorship elections and after their governorship elections they will vote somewhere not PDP,” he said.

READ ALSO: 2019: South East Governors, PDP leaders meet in Enugu over Obi

“And for us to ignore those stakeholders, it is political suicidal; so we must agree with that fact.
That was what we told Obasanjo yesterday – that as far as we want to Atiku to succeed, he has no alternative than to drop Peter Obi, and with the contention between Peter Obi’s group and the Ike Ekweremadu group, it is not political convenient again to pick a running mate from the South East.
Because whichever group you pick from, the other group will work against them.

“Then, in the North, we consider Peter Obi as anti-north. This is no sentiment, apart from the way he treated the northerners when he was the governor of Anambra state, we consider him as a bonafide member and major sponsor of IPOB.

“In fact, 70 percent of emirs and traditional rulers from the north will not support Peter Obi as the vice president.”

Afiyo was of the view that it would not be politically wise for Atiku to pick his running mate from the South West which, according to him, remains a strong base of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), advising the PDP to turn its radar instead to the South South.

The NYLF leader suggested that either Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike or his Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson, should be considered as Atiku’s prospective running mate, if the opposition party is serious about unseating President Muhammadu Buhari next year.

“We don’t work on sentiment. As I have told you before, our group staked our lives in 2015 for Buhari. Personally, I was placed under house arrest for two weeks throughout the extension of the presidential election in 2015. I was fighting with the hope that Buhari would change things, but there is a cabal and Buhari is completely caged.

READ ALSO: Cabals here, cabals there…

“Also, mind you, Atiku is not a saint; anyone that becomes president, there must be a cabal. So we need a vice president that will tell the cabal no and Peter Obi doesn’t have the courage and boldness to be the vice president to challenge the authorities. We need checks and balances,” he said warning that “If Atiku fails to heed our warning, then APC will win. Buhari will win hands down because we cannot support a failure, we will work for APC.”

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  1. Avatar Buzorkent says:
    2 years ago

    You are a pathological and incorrigible liar, is Nigeria your fore father’s estate? I guess you are dreaming, you want Atiku to drop Obi because he is an Igbo man. That your evil plot shall not live to see the light of the day.

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  2. Avatar Appacino says:
    2 years ago

    That is why the north has been so backward even when they are always with power for they have eyes but they don’t see.Peter Obi is the worst enemy of ipob. The last thing Obi will do on earth is to put his money in ipob.

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  3. Avatar Kabiyeze says:
    2 years ago

    By saying that you will support Buhari again after accepting that he is a failure, when their are over 30 other candidate shows you are a failure yourself and want nothing good for Nigeria

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  4. Avatar Peter Okeke says:
    2 years ago

    The fact that NYFl and IPOB are opposing the choice of Peter Obi as Atiku’s running mate strongly indicate that he is certainly the man for the job. It is high time Nigerians base their decisions in selecting their leaders not on ethnic and religious sentiments but proven track records of performances. Hunger and joblessness have no such sentiments as basic needs are shared in common. Every Nigeria wants an improved quality life irrespective of where one is from just as in the collective desires for the Nigerian football team to defeat their opponents.

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  5. Avatar Peter Okeke says:
    2 years ago

    The fact that NYFl and IPOB are opposing the choice of Peter Obi as Atiku’s running mate strongly indicates that he is certainly the man for the job. It is high time Nigerians base their decisions in selecting their leaders not on ethnic and religious sentiments but proven track records of performances. Hunger and joblessness have no such sentiments as basic needs are shared in common. Every Nigeria wants an improved quality life irrespective of where one is from just as in the collective desires for the Nigerian football team to defeat their opponents.

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