15th March, 2022
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot afford to lose the 2023 presidency as that may be the end of the party.
Atiku spoke with the PDP Board of Trustees members during a Consultative meeting in Abuja.
He said he was worried and that the BoT should be worried too if the PDP did not win, saying it meant the party would be in opposition again for the next eight years.
According to Atiku, by the next eight years, he did not know how many of them would be left in politics and that it might even ultimately lead to the death of the party because people gravitate, particularly in developing countries, towards governments.
He likened this moment as very crucial and historical in history, for the party’s survival.
The former vice president said they invented and formulated the zoning policy simply because they wanted every part of this country to have a sense of belonging and that he personally had paid his dues on the issue of zoning.
“Therefore, you cannot come and try to imply that the PDP has not been following the zoning policy. The many years of PDP government, eight years and six years, all of them were from the south. So, we should not be stampeded by the opposition party. They have a moral obligation,” Atiku warned.