Emerging reports indicate that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, remains the candidate to beat in the forthcoming 2019 Presidential election.
WE exclusively gathered that with the division still trailing the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, whether President Muhammadu Buhari should contest in 2019 or not, Atiku may leverage on for is own political gain.
It was learnt that over one million voting supporters are already backing the Atiku Presidency, for 2019. This discovery has sent a strong signal to the occupiers of Aso Rock, that the battle will not be a child’s play in 2019.
There are also strong indications that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are waiting with open arms to receive Atiku and his over one million active voting supporters, in its fold ahead of 2019.
“I don’t see anybody in our party today who has the clout of Atiku to face President Buhari in 2019”, a PDP source told Post-Nigeria.
The source added: “Atiku will be 73 years old in 2019. That was the same age as President Buhari in 2015, and he will be 77 in 2019. Atiku cannot wait till 2023. 2019 is his last chance to run for President. I pray that those pushing Buhari for 2019 will succeed, then I pray that this would enlarge their fight in APC, so much that many of our people there, including Atiku, will come back to PDP, or we regroup in another party. Atiku will be a good candidate for us then. It will be to our advantage, like our own crisis in 2015 was to their advantage. If they push Atiku out, then PDP can capitalise on that. The APC loss will be our gain in PDP. No problem.”
Other sources have said that the bold public call by Atiku Abubakar on the need to restructure the country, has also increased his electability value in Southern Nigeria, as well as among the marginalised minorities of the North, who see a restructured Nigeria as the solution to the country’s many maladies.
Reacting, an Elder Statesman who spoke with Post-Nigeria said: “Southerners will vote Atiku on his stand on restructuring. He is a businessman who can run the economy better than Buhari.”
“How President Buhari does the magic to pull the country out of this economic recession is central to any second term for him, or even the chances of the APC in 2019. It is all up to the President and his economic team now. If they don’t make things happen in the economy before the electioneering campaign starts, if Nigerians continue to cry over the economy, if the masses don’t have money in their pockets, then President Buhari and his party have a herculean task on their hands in 2019.
“Atiku has some successful businesses known to many Nigerians out there to the public. That should give him some good leverage or traction when he talks economy, and how to go about making it work. I think if his campaign also sets out a clear economic agenda, that will help him a lot if he contests the Presidency in 2019. Buhari’s team just can’t get out their economic plans in clear terms as we are talking. Nigerians can’t just get it (economic agenda). It is one area the President and his economic team, I think, need to work hard on, if they are to stand a chance with the common man”, another source added.
The source added: “Atiku has paid his dues in politics as to crown his efforts with the Presidency of this country in 2019. His loyalty to late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in life and death, his calmness in the face of virulent attacks by a man like (former President Olusegun) Obasanjo, his tremendous contribution to making Buhari President after how many failed attempts, and the way he has kept many dissatisfied factions of the APC in the party since May 29, 2015”, as some of the reasons he would support Atiku, “even against President Buhari”.
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