Catholic missionary Priest, Fr Kelvin Ugwu has knocked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar over his recent comment.
Atiku had on Saturday during an interactive session With Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna State, said average Northerners do not need Igbo or Yoruba to become president.
The comment had triggered backlash from several concerned Nigerians who dragged the former vice president on media, asking him to retract his words and tender apologies to Nigerians.
Also reacting, Fr Kelvin in an article on his verified Facebook page titled, “Atiku: The Unifying Pan”, recalled how Atiku promised that he would hand over power to Southerners after his tenure if elected in 2023.
The fiery Catholic priest who named the PDP candidate an ethnic bigot, said Atiku has no regard for Southerners.
Part of the article reads, “One of his biggest and most laughable deceptions was to tell the southern leaders that he will hand over to them after his tenure if elected.
“At least it is clear, especially from Atiku’s recent video. Atiku doesn’t believe the north or Nigeria needs a Yoruba or Igbo or TIV or Efik president.
“This is why, after 8 years of Buhari who is from the North, his conscience does not prick him that in a diverse country like Nigeria, the most effective way, if he really means to unify the country, is to allow another person from another region to be the president.
“So, they sold the narrative of him being a unifier when in an actual sense he is the opposite. He calls himself a Pan Nigerian, but he is more of an ethnic bigot, a frying pan who is busy Uni-Frying the Southerners.
“As a priest, my job is to point out all these to you because they are serious moral issues. It is left for you to use your head and do the needful/right thing”.
