North should vote northerner as president in 2023 – Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said the North must vote a northerner goes contrary to the public image of a unifier that he has portrayed over the years.
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, charged northerners to vote for him in 2023, and not for a “Yoruba or Igbo candidate”.
“I think what an average northerner needs is somebody from the north who understands other parts of Nigeria and who has been able to build bridges across the country. That is what the north needs,” he said in a now viral video.
Atiku said further, “It (Northern Nigeria) doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate or an Igbo candidate. This is what the northerners need. So I believe I stand before you as a pan-Nigerian of Northern origin.”
At 75, Atiku will contest the 2023 presidential election against several contestants, including candidates of the All Progressives Congress and the Labour Party, Bola Tinubu and Obi respectively, who are of southern extraction.