Atiku Reveals What Scared Peter Obi Out Of PDP | READ FULL DETAILS
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that his Labour Party counterpart, Mr Peter Obi was scared out of the PDP because of an earlier plot of governors elected under the platform of the party.
Abubakar who was addressing the media in Abuja on Thursday revealed that before he became PDP’s presidential candidate, PDP governors decided that ‘they must produce the next President, vice president, and Chief of Staff amongst them”.
He said that decision which he later stood against, scared Peter Obi out of PDP and he hurriedly defected to LP to contest for presidency.
According to Abubakar, the votes Obi polled from south east and south south belongs to him adding that the latter wounded him with that.
“When I ran in 2019, I picked an Igbo man as a running mate simply because I felt that after any other zone again, the next zone must be South-East. In 2011, I also picked another Igbo man. And in 2023, I also picked another Igbo man. And I have always said that I will be a stepping stone to an Igbo Presidency.
“Because there is no zone alone in this country that can produce a President on his own. I have always told my Igbo compatriots that you negotiate for power, you don’t fight for it.
“So, for anybody to think that I have anything against Labour Party, I think Peter (Obi) was in a rush. Do you know why I say he was in a rush? When the campaign and our PDP governors sat down and said they must produce the next President, vice president, and Chief of Staff amongst them, Peter got scared and left. I did not get scared. I stood up against the governors and I fought them and won the primaries,so if he was there, nothing could have stopped him from becoming a running mate.”
“The question of whether I will work with Peter or not, or whether Peter wounded the PDP; yes, to some extent, he did because all the votes he carried were PDP votes in the South-South and the South-East. Agreed, he took our votes from the South-East and South-South, that, of course, will not make him President. You all know that to be President of this country, you need votes from everywhere. So, as far as I am concerned, Peter is welcome to have a dialogue with the PDP
“We are ready to have a dialogue with him. I don’t think we will have any problem if he wants to have a dialogue with PDP either to form an alliance or not” Atiku Abubakar said.
