Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has boasted that he’s sure of clinching the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to run for the forthcoming presidential elections.
Atiku stated this on Saturday, after a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his (Obasanjo) residence, in Abeokuta, Ogun.
Atiku who was the vice president under Obasanjo’s administration between 1999 and 2007 while fielding questions from journalists about his emergence as candidate in 2023 said: “Have I ever failed to get a ticket? I’m confident that I will still get it.”
The Presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 Polls said his reason for the visit to Obasanjo that lasted for about an hour, said he was in Abeokuta as part of his usual visit to his former boss.
When asked for his reaction to the call for the emergence of younger presidential candidates, Atiku responded, “Let the youths compete now. It is a competition. It is democracy.”
Atiku later proceeded to the palace of the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, in Ake, Abeokuta, where he recalled his days in Ogun as a trained Customs Officer.
Although Atiku did not disclose his political intentions at the palace though, the traditional ruler prayed that God would grant him his heart’s desires.
