The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, on Sunday, berated the Presidential standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, saying his recent incitement of Northerners to snub Igbo and Yoruba candidates has exposed his true intention to Nigerians.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Director, Media and Publicity of the Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga.
Atiku had caused a stir on Saturday at the interactive session of the Arewa Town Hall Policy Dialogue in Kaduna State when he claimed Northerners should bank on a president who hails from the North.
Atiku, an indigene of Adamawa in the north-east, told an audience of Hausa and Fulani people not to bank on an Igbo or Yoruba for president but someone from northern extraction.
He said, “I know the whole of this country. I have built bridges across this country. I think the average northerner needs somebody from the North, who also understands the other parts of Nigeria and who has been able to build bridges across the rest of the country.
“This is what the northerner needs. He (a northerner) doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate or an Igbo candidate. This is what the northerner needs.
A livid Onanuga on Sunday described Atiku’s speech as the “worst expression of ethnocentric opportunism ever uttered by a former Vice President.”
He said the PDP standard bearer’s speech clearly demonstrated how low a man honoured with the second highest office of the Nigerian Constitution is willing to sink in search of a perennial wild goose chase after the highest office in the land.
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