The Deputy Director, Media and Publicity, and Liaison Officer of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Management Committee in Anambra State, Mr Uloka Chukwubuikem, has said that the shortest route for Igbo presidency is voting for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 general elections.

He stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Awka on Wednesday, adding that the decision to align with Atiku is not for selfish gain, but for the collective interest of the South East and Ndi-Igbo after the elections.

According to him, any region that wants to be president in Nigeria must belong to the two dominant parties in the country, which he said are the PDP and the All Progressives Congress, stressing that they both have strong alliances with other regions in the country.

He said, “With Atiku Abubakar and Senator Ifeanyi Okowa’s joint ticket looking probable and their victory mostly inevitable in 2023, we will be vindicated and our people will see reasons to appreciate our stand and commitment with the PDP when the gains and rewards for our today’s decision begin to manifest.

“In Anambra State, we have consistently professed optimism about Atiku and the PDP being the shortest feasible route for an Igbo presidency in view of the present realities on the ground.

“This may be difficult to accept for certain people in the South East for the time being, but it remains the only logical path for an Igbo political renaissance in Nigeria and easy election to the presidency in the next four to eight years.

“It’s comprehensible that our people are demanding an Igbo presidency in 2023, and while we all agree that such demand is morally right and timely, it’s also crucial that we try to convince ourselves that the South East and Ndi-Igbo currently place much greater emphasis on having our region reconnected to the national grid, having genuine reconciliation, and forging strategic alliances with other regions of the country.”

Good luck atiku

Comedy!

From same Atiku that denied Peter Obi PDP presidential ticket?

Atiku should tell us something else please!

This joke is stale!

Atiku is the shortest route to more beheading of Christians by Islamic extremists. Atiku apologized to Islamic extremists over the murder of Deborah.

Any Christian that votes for Atiku is a fool.

These idiots should stop using that useless phrase, Igbo presidency

How come we don't hear Yoruba presidency, Hausa presidency, Fulani presidency, Tiv presidency, etc?

Why are there so many lunatics in APC and PDP?

MasterJayJay:
Atiku is the shortest route to more beheading of Christians by Islamic extremists. Atiku apologized to Islamic extremists over the murder of Deborah.

Any Christian that votes for Atiku is a fool.

you are getting it all wrong brother, Atiku is one the few politician in nigeria that have the heart of accomodating everybody no matter where you come from.

This stupidity never tire una?

When he leaves he's gonna make sure another northerner takes over.

His staunch ally Mahdi Shehu is going round the north preaching to even northern christians to not vote any Igbo man, saying Igbos kill people in the east.

Same Atiku is promising Rivers to produce the next president.

This stupidity never tire una?

Keep dividing the country along religious and ethnic lines na. Nonsense.