The unifying plan and agenda of the opposition party, the people’s democratic party and her presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is now very clear to the Nigerian people, as we head into the 2023 general election.
While the ruling party, the All progressive congress is doing everything within the ambit of what they think is their best strategy to win and retain power in 2023, the main opposition party, the people’s democratic party, a party that prides itself on a mantra to rescue the Nigeria people, and their candidate mantra of unifying the nation is in disarray over their presidential primary fall out and the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, inability to settle all wary voices, especially from their southern members who feel agitated and angry from not clinching the presidential ticket.
The main opposition party that wants to rescue Nigeria and unite all of her people is fielding a candidate from the Fulani Northern part of Nigeria, to replace an outgoing Fulani President from the North too. A party that said unifying both North and South together is their candidate mantra is having their presidential candidate from the North, their party chairman from the North, their Campaign organisation director general from the North, their progressive governor’s chairman from the North, and their campaign spokesperson number one and two are also from the North. What a way of defining the unification of the people.
The ruling party saw the need for the party to zone their ticket to the south after the completion of a president from the North. That was the reason the governors elected from the North on the platform of the All progressive congress, had to throw their full weight for a southerner to pick the party presidential ticket.
Another area the candidate of the people’s democratic party, has shown the kind of unifier he is in the case of the late Miss Deborah, who was lynched by a fanactical mob, after they accused her of blasphemy. Atiku in his unifying way released a statement on her verified twitter handle condemning such an act, but when the mob threatened not to vote for him, Atiku had the tweet deleted, and went on his Facebook page to apologise to the same mob, but this time around releasing the message in the Hausa language.
A unifier that can’t condemn an injustice with his whole heart, and stand by his conviction.
According to Martin Luther King, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moment of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenges and controversy..
A candidate that is planning to rescue and unify the entire nation seems not to be in tune with what is happening, or what has happened in the country he wants to govern. At the LCCI interaction program with the frontline presidential candidates, Atiku told the audience and the entire world that when voted into office in 2023, one of his areas of priority is to make sure the power sector is moved from the exclusive list and move to the concurrent list so that state can be able to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity, without necessarily feeding the generated power into the national grid.
This is proposition is generally a welcome idea, but the only issue here is that this same plan has already been carried out by the present administration through the national assembly constitution amendment process. That bill is currently with the state house of assemblies, waiting for ratification before it’s transmitted to the president for assent.
How can you plan to be a solution to your people, when in the first case, you don’t even know their problems?
Atiku might have spent too much time in faraway Dubai, for him to be abreast with what is going on in Nigeria, the same Nigeria he wants to unite and rescue in 2023.
Dear Nigerians, as we head into the general election in 2023, be aware that charity they say begins at home. A rescuer and unifier that cannot unify his party and rescue the party from disintegration, cannot possibly get the magic wand to rescue and unite over 200 million Nigerians. Politicians will come with sweet promises, but the people must be ready to ask them how they plan to carry out those promises, and the answer the people seek must not just be mere rhetorics .
Let those that have ears hear….
