BREAKING: #Atiku Abubakar Emerges #PDP 2023 Presidential Candidate – #PDPPresidentialPrimaries—–The Genius Media Nigeria reports that Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has emerged as PDP 2023 Presidential Candidate.
TGM gathered that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has been declared winner of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP primary election at the ongoing National Convention at MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja.
Atiku’s emergence as the main opposition party’s flag bearer for the 2023 presidential election is coming after Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal withdrew from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential race and urged all his supporters and delegates to vote for former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
Mr Abubakar, a retired customs office and Nigeria’s vice-president from 1999 to 2007, won the most votes from the 767 delegates accredited for the convention.
He won 371 votes from the 767 delegates accredited for the convention.
Earlier, Sokoto state governor and fellow presidential aspirant Aminu Tambuwal withdrew from the race. Mr Tambuwal urged his supporters among the delegates to vote for the former vice president, subsequently shooting him ahead of his main contender Nyesom Wike, who scored 237 votes.
In March, Mr Abubakar formally declared his interest in running for the office of the Nigerian president in 2023. His campaign focus covered security, economy, education and devolving more resources and powers to the federating units.
Mr Abubakar promised the nation that his administration would tackle the stealing of public funds if elected president in the 2023 general elections. The presidential hopeful pledged to ensure that the educational sector was given proper care and attention.
His victory followed the comments of Doyin Okupe, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, who revealed that the presidential primary election will be a money market as presidential aspirants, like Messrs Abubakar and Wike, would persuade delegates with money. How much role cash distribution played throughout the exercise was unclear.
Me Abubakar’s desire to be president dates as far back as 2019 when he won the ticket of the PDP but was beaten at the polls by incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.
The former vice president had tried five times unsuccessfully to become Nigeria’s president, starting in 1992 when he ran under the Social Democratic Party. He sought the office in 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.
Mr Abubakar has faced relentless pushback against his ambition over his unsavoury record on public corruption
