2027: Why Atiku needs to step aside – Osita Okechukwu

An All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Osita Okechukwu, has urged erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar to measurement speech from the 2027 statesmanlike contention and clasp the relation of a statesman.

The APC chieftain is arguing that Atiku’s determination to contention the 2023 statesmanlike predetermination against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, zoning statement weakened the absorption and Nigeria’s democracy.

Okechukwu made the entreaty portion speaking connected Arise Television’s Prime Time on Monday.

According to him, Atiku’s emergence arsenic the PDP statesmanlike campaigner successful 2022, contempt calls for the enactment to portion its summons to the South, triggered a situation that continues to impact the party.

“I’m talking successful the involvement of our country. His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, a antheral I respect a lot. He was precise adjacent to immoderate of my large brothers, the precocious Dubem Onyia and precocious Chuba Okadigbo. I’ve large respect for him.

“And what I’m appealing to him is that helium should see the involvement of Nigerian State, our fledging democracy.

“About 3 years agone helium (Atiku) did the aforesaid happening by breaching the rotation convention, and the collateral harm is heavy.

“Heavy successful the consciousness that, luckily for the Nigerian state, ideology remained, the state remained, but the destabilisation of the PDP had its ain collateral damages that it cannot beryllium quantified.

“In ...