Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has indicated interest to run for the position of Nigeria’s president in 2023.
This is contained in a secret memo sent to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in June 2021 but leaked to Newsmen on Friday.
The former Vice President in the memo expressed gratitude to members of PDP for their role in the 2019 elections and urged the party to gear up for the 2023 elections.
He noted the party is now better equipped than it was during the last presidential elections and urged the party members to team up towards a new political and economic order that would radically reinvent the country.
He insisted that PDP lost the 2019 presidential election because of the massive fraud perpetrated by the APC.
Atiku dismissed insinuations that he had abandoned the party after his defeat in the 2019 presidential election, saying he had been in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), equipping himself with skills to fix the country’s challenges.
He said, “Yes, I may have been apparently out of regular physical presence in Nigeria.
“Several persons, particularly associates and compatriots may have felt frustrated, some have even privately expressed so, while others have publicly complained that we have left them without leadership guidance democratic forces who have visited severe stress on our political economy.
“I concede that individuals are justified to hold such opinions and even more. But they are not entirely correct.”
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar had lost the APC Primaries to the eventual winner Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) of the Presidential election in 2015 and similarly lost to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 while he was flag bearer to the PDP.
