Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has warned the executives of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the party might not survive if it doesn’t win the 2023 presidential election.
Atiku, made this known on Tuesday when he hosted the Board of Trustee members of the party in a meeting in Abuja.
The Presidential aspirant asked the elders of the party to join hands with him to get to the presidency in 2023 or “we all retire together.”
He said, “I am worried and you should be worried too that if we do not win, it means we will be in opposition again for the next eight years. By the next eight years, I don’t know how many of us will be left in politics and it may even ultimately lead to the death of the party because people gravitate, particularly in developing countries, towards governments. So this is a very crucial and historical moment in history, for our survival.”
Speaking on the issue of zoning, he said, “We invented and formulated this zoning policy simply because we wanted every part of this country to have a sense of belonging and I personally have paid my 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.”
