2019 Election: IBB Backs Atiku for President
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Segun Atanda/
Former Military President, retired General Ibrahim Babangida today gave his blessings to the ambition of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who is campaigning to be Nigeria’s President in 2019.
The Atiku Campaign Organisation (ACO) led by former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, told
NewsmakersNG today that Babangida gave his support to Atiku and prayed for him when the presidential aspirant called at his Minna, Niger State residence today.
“IBB gave his support and prayed for the Atiku Abubakar 2019 Presidential project,” the campaign office stated.

http://www.newsmakersng.com/2019-election-ibb-backs-atiku-for-president/

Silly old people

Insha Allah, Atiku is the next President of Nigeria. He is experienced and already has the template to restructure and reposition the country. All patriotic Nigerians are keying in into the Atiku's project because he is the best man for the job.

Atiku my man

buhari is docile ,a tribalist and nepostic human . atiku for sure is better than him

i was rooting for dankwambo, but as it is he is not serious, i will rather support Atiku. He has what it takes to dethrone buhari.

Too much money. If he want to waste small out of his money, its OK.

He can't beat kwankwaso talkless of PMB

IBBG:
i was rooting for dankwambo, but as it is he is not serious, i will rather support Atiku. He has what it takes to dethrone buhari.

anywhere bele face

The Rascals are reorganising. When IBB challenge PDP to bring credible candidate this Atiku is the credible IBB is supporting. It's Work-over 2019. Buhari till 2023 Osinbajo till 2031.

IBBG:
i was rooting for dankwambo, but as it is he is not serious, i will rather support Atiku. He has what it takes to dethrone buhari.

De throning Buhari is nightmare??

Pictures or idonbelivit

Ha ha ha ha ATIKU for president, congratulations to president BUHARI in advance as president elect in 2019 presidential election.

alen4smith:
anywhere bele face

lol. baba i will support a politiican with a realistic chance of defeating buhari. As it is now, dankwambo is acting too docile when other gladiators are struting their stuff. I can''t waste my time rooting for somebody who does is not rooting for himself and does not understand poltics. Atiku is showing serious interest and working hard to clinch the position. i love people who work hard.

for those writing off atiku. under rate him at own peril. he has more loyalist even within PMB govt willing to work for him. If he gets obasanjo endorsement, it is game over for buhari

AbuMaryam1:



De throning Buhari is nightmare??

lol. thats a myth that will be demystified soon

IBBG:
lol. baba i will support a politiican with a realistic chance of defeating buhari. As it is now, dankwambo is acting too docile when other gladiators are struting their stuff. I can''t waste my time rooting for somebody who does is not rooting for himself and does not understand poltics. Atiku is showing serious interest and working hard to clinch the position. i love people who work hard.

pdp will betray Atiku Markafi will get the ticket go and write it down.wike is interested in 2023 presidential elections an Atiku presidency will most probably kill his dreams .Remember Wike is pdp and pdp is wike just watch out!

alen4smith:
pdp will betray Atiku Markafi will get the ticket go and write it down.wike is interested in 2023 presidential elections an Atiku presidency will most probably kill his dreams .Remember Wike is pdp and pdp is wike just watch out!

lol. those are mere fables. so Markafi will now step down for wike ahead of 2023?. baba if the dynamics favour an atiku win, pdp will readily hand him the ticket. as of now, the momentum seems to be shifting in his direction

Atikukukuku

I don't believe IBB said this. There will be a denial very soon.

Tomakint Tomatiku

IBBG:
lol. those are mere fables. so Markafi will now step down for wike ahead of 2023?. baba if the dynamics favour an atiku win, pdp will readily hand him the ticket. as of now, the momentum seems to be shifting in his direction

just watch as events unfold

alen4smith:
just watch as events unfold

It will never happen. PDP will never make the mistake of handing over the party's ticket to someone who can't win his LGA. All you guys hoping on that to give the incompetent outgoing President a free ride in the general elections will fail. H.E. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is the next President of Nigeria, insha Allah

id911:


It will never happen. PDP will never make the mistake of handing over the party's ticket to someone who can't win his LGA. All you guys hoping on that to give the incompetent outgoing President a free ride in the general elections will fail. H.E. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is the next President of Nigeria, insha Allah

Buhari will beat Atiku silly

alen4smith:
Buhari will beat Atiku silly

Time will tell bro

Atiku is only formidable candidate to contend with Buhari... With what is going now in the country , killing here and there... My advice to him is to hold Wike tight ....

the same atiku a serial loser thousands of atiku can't dethrone buhari even atiku know this.

Buhari's defeat, will be embarrassingly liberating. Those who trekked when he won showed signs of things to come.

Fu**ck all dis tif
We dont need dem
Dose set of people should go n die n leave nig alone


Can anyone list young candidate or promising leader

thunder fire evry1 of dem...

AN EVENING WITH TWO PRESIDENTIAL
ASPIRANTS IN ABUJA
PEDULUM By Dele Momodu, Email: dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com
PENDULUM
BY DELE MOMODU
Fellow Nigerians, nothing is more uppermost in the minds of
Nigerians and friends of Nigeria than that of Nigeria’s general
elections next year and, in particular, the Presidential race. I have
had the honour of talking to a few of the Presidential aspirants in
recent times, one or one or by telephone. So far, I have interacted
with former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Cross
River State Governor, Mr Donald Duke, the Chairman of BEN TV
London, Mr Alistair Soyode, and my former running-mate, Dr
Yunusa Tanko. Two nights ago, I succeeded in sitting down with two
very formidable aspirants, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Alhaji Rabiu
Kwankwaso, at their homes in Abuja. The separate meetings, which
took place one after the other, lasted till the wee hours of Friday
morning.
I was simply curious to catch a glimpse of their mind-set and, trust
me, my efforts truly paid off. First to receive me two nights ago was
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Sitting down with this friendly leader is
always a great delight. This occasion was not different. We
discussed frankly and openly. His confidence level is truly that of a
man who has been in the system, and in the race, longer than most
of the other aspirants. Before I go into details of our latest
conversation, let me do a recap of my general observations of the
ruling party, APC, and the leading opposition party, PDP.
I was one of those who suggested that President Muhammadu
Buhari has no business seeking re-election, on account of age and
diminishing stamina, but that advice seems to have been rubbished
and dismissed by his apparent decision to go ahead, and contest
again, next year despite the obvious. Though it is now belated, I
wish to place it on record that the best way for APC to retain power
is for President Buhari to do the unexpected, sacrifice his personal
ambition and hand over to the Vice President, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo who was able to relatively stabilise and unite Nigeria
while the President was away on medical vacation in Nigeria. I
wish to assure the President that he would get accolades and a
louder ovation than he did when he honoured Chief Moshood
Abiola and June 12 recently. President Buhari, by this decision,
would instantly kill several birds with one stone. He would have
helped Nigeria kill the hydra-headed nonsense of unproductive
zoning and ethnic jingoism. He would have also rubbished those
who see and label him as a religious bigot and Islamic extremist
which no one has been able to prove in concrete terms except
through conspiracy theories. He would also have bequeathed to
Nigeria a more than worthy successor who he can be confident will
vigorously continue with the fight against corruption, whilst taking
Nigeria to greater economic heights.
Failing to do this, the President would lead his embattled and
beleaguered party into a war they are not likely to win, and risk
being humiliated out of power and totally demystified forever. For
the sake of all the fervent supporters who laboured strenuously for
his victory in 2015, this is not the road and route to take. But I know
this simple and straight-forward and patriotic suggestion would be
dismissed and derided by those who view power as the beginning
and end of life, the present beneficiaries who are ruling our
country from behind the “iron” curtain. In the next few weeks, as
the melodrama begins to unfold and explode in the faces of those
who have failed to learn the lessons and examples of history, let it
be said and remembered that I said my own, even if my saying was
considered a heresy and anathema to their obstinate position and
ambition.
Let’s now briefly move on to likely scenarios and possibilities. It is
certain that going by the recent National Convention of APC many
formidable members of the ruling party are more than
disenfranchised and disgruntled. The only option left is for them to
carry whatever is left of their dignity and self-worth and find other
parties to join. Most naturally, and definitely, the greatest
beneficiary will turn out to be PDP. APC would be shooting itself in
the foot to think PDP has become so weak and can no longer spring
any surprises in the near and foreseeable future. History has an
uncanny way of repeating itself and what I can see very vividly
from my crystal-ball is that the same grand conspiracy that swept
PDP out of government in 2015 is about to recur with mathematical
accuracy.
There is not a single State won by APC in 2015 that it can
confidently say it would win bigger and better this time. Rather the
figures would shrink and diminish. If in doubt, please, exercise
patience. That is how divided the seemingly unifying party at the
time has now become. The war of attrition within the party is eating
at its very soul and core and it is making it to bleed and lose
supporters and voters. The chickens will certainly come home to
roost.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is upbeat that this is payback time for him
and he is ready to finally claim the mandate that has eluded him
since 1993 when he had to step down for Chief Moshood Abiola and
in 2003 when he succumbed to pressure and allowed his boss,
President Olusegun Obasanjo, to seek and secure a second term. For
him, life is a journey of destiny. He believes no one is as prepared
and ready to hit the grand running as him. I asked if he is very sure
that he will get the PDP ticket, his response is that he has reached
out to all the stakeholders and he believes that those who don’t
want Buhari to come back are very serious about who they see as
having the national appeal to defeat him at the polls. His
mathematical permutation is that he is the most visible and readily
recognisable Nigerian politician in the race.
He says the Nigerian government has lost total grip on all aspects of
governance and that President Buhari appears to be totally
confused. He believes Buhari has refused to tap into the huge
human resources and talents it has pleased God to bless Nigeria
with. He is of the opinion that Nigeria is bleeding dangerously
because Buhari has virtually polarised the country like no one else
since the civil war. “Therefore, the leader Nigeria needs urgently is
one who can unite the country and heal the deep wounds, not
another Buhari who would further divide Nigeria and deepen the
wounds,” Atiku declared matter-of-factly. He is relying on his track
record as someone with the requisite cosmopolitan experience and
exposure. He said Nigeria is being led by those whose views belong
in the stone age and if Nigerians give him the chance, they will see
the difference instantly, because he would assemble the best and
most competent Nigerians for the best posts as he’s always done.
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“Check my records Dele, my office as Vice President reflected the
best of Nigeria; the guys were young and vibrant, and I gave them
the wings to fly…” he said. I asked how he intends to tackle the
seemingly pervasive public perception that he is a corrupt leader
and he responded with all the emphasis at his command: “I have
thrown the challenge repeatedly that anyone who has any corrupt
charges against me should come forward… I never stole
government money. Do you think President Obasanjo would not
have exposed me if there was any such act of stealing?”
I fired the next shot as always and told him Nigerian youths are
asking why he cannot enter the United States and he answered
again like he did during our last chat in Lagos: “The youths have
every right to ask and be answered convincingly. The youths of
today are confident and bold. No leader can treat them as nobody.
But in my case, they have been lied to about Atiku and fed with a
lot of propaganda. I applied to America for visa which was not
granted. A man who is afraid of being arrested won’t go near the
American Embassy, it is simple logic. If America says come today, I
will board the flight and go there soonest. Perhaps, America was fed
with lies about me. It is normal in politics. The Indian and Kenyan
leaders could not visit America at a time. America is not like
Nigeria where we convict people on the pages of newspapers.”
He pleaded that his business dealings are above board and very
professional and that any of our past and current leaders who have
done better should come out to show what they have done. “I will
definitely create an enabling environment for our business icons
and young entrepreneurs to thrive. What I see today in this
government is the promotion of poverty and the glorification of
backwardness. How can a government be gloating that they are
fighting corruption when thousands if not millions are losing jobs
and even their lives,” he opined.
Before I left, he said he has done his best to persuade members of
his party about his ability to defeat Buhari and reverse our lack of
progress. ‘Nigeria has to be managed as serious business and I’m
certainly equipped in that aspect more than any other…”
I left him and headed to Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso’s home. We had
met in South Africa last year and I was looking forward to this
interaction. Our recent meeting was graciously arranged by his
wonderful son, Mubarak, a much younger friend of mine, very
calm and intelligent. Kwankwaso was having dinner with his
hordes of supporters when his son sent him a message that I was
around. He immediately asked that I should be ushered in to join
them at dinner, but I already had mine. He looked very relaxed
despite the tension of the moment. I waited for him to finish and
we moved into his small office. He reminds me of the friend of the
‘talakawa’, in the mold of late Mallam Aminu Kano.
My first question to him was if he’s still in APC since he boycotted
their National Convention in Abuja last week. He smiled, almost
sarcastically, and said, it was obvious some people did not want to
see his face there and he too did not dignify them with his
presence. “A man who respects himself should never force himself
on anyone,” he stated. He said he is proud of his contributions to
APC and how God used him to deliver 1.9 million votes to Buhari in
the last election. Does he mean he has finally dumped the party? He
appeared serious this time without exhibiting any bitterness: “I’m a
free man now and available to try my luck elsewhere but I know
that PDP is the biggest party and as long as they follow democratic
principle, Buhari will easily be defeated, but if they handpick and
force any candidate on the party, they will fail. “
I really enjoyed the way he analysed things and broke down the
politics of Presidential electioneering in his own simple terms:
“PDP needs someone from the 3k States, Kano, Katsina and Kaduna
to win the next election. That’s where the votes are. It would be
difficult to win if they pick someone from any other zone…” This
was new approach to me. So, I asked if he feels he is the only
candidate who can beat Buhari in a popularity contest, he said “of
course, yes.” He likes to showcase his humongous achievements as
the Governor of Kano State. He has compiled his work into a book
and I must say, it is very impressive. He expects Nigerians to allow
him replicate what he has done in Kano nationwide. His experience
also as a former Defence Minister makes him a veritable choice to
tackle the menace of terrorism in Nigeria.
He claims he gave APC the structure that produced the monumental
result that catapulted Buhari back to power and that he still holds
that magic wand. He said there is no way Buhari can repeat such
impressive showing in Kano when he is fighting him and his
counterpart, the former Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau. He studiously
avoided discussing the chances of Atiku picking the PDP ticket and
if he would support who ever emerges as the flagbearer of the
party. His simple and non-committal response is that he cannot
hand votes over to those who are not better than him and that PDP
would have to think well and make the best decision.
“I can guarantee them that I will beat Buhari if given the chance…”
he declared before we stood up to take pictures to commemorate
our meeting. As I said good night, I could see the face of a man so
determined to go into battle with Buhari, but in need of a good and
viable platform.

Atiku final disgrace will happen in 2019. He won't win a local got in his state not to talk of Minna.

Dannyset:
Atiku final disgrace will happen in 2019. He won't win a local got in his state not to talk of Minna.

Mouth action, disciple of Liar Mohammed!

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