ADC primaries: Atiku’s acceptance speech (Full Text)

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been declared victor of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, statesmanlike superior predetermination held crossed the country.

Atiku was declared victor aft polling 1,846,370 votes to decision erstwhile Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who got 504,117 votes.

Speaking aft the declaration, Atiku said:

I privation to explicit my profound appreciation for the privilege, which you person bestowed connected me, of starring our large party, the African Democratic Congress, into the adjacent elections arsenic its Presidential Candidate. I americium genuinely humbled and excited by this singular honour. 

We demonstrated that portion ideology is being strangled and squashed by the ruling enactment and its oppressive and anti-democratic government, ideology is live and good successful the African Democratic Congress.  In our party, members are allowed to explicit their views, to person ambitions and to contention for elective positions successful a free, just and transparent process.

Our large enactment is simply a conjugation built done hard work, immense sacrifices and compromises, guided by our determination to rescue our country’s ideology which is facing its top menace since the instrumentality t...