APC Campaign Council condemns Atiku over anti-Yoruba, Igbo comment

The All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has condemned Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate over his comment that the Northerners should vote for him because he hails from the northern region.

Bayo Onanuga, director, media and publicity of the APC council, stated on Sunday in Abuja that Atiku had resorted to a divisive statement in the face of inevitable failure at the 2023 election.

Atiku had earlier made a statement during an interactive session with the Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna on Saturday.

“What the average northerner needs are somebody from the north who understands that part of the country and has been able to build bridges across the country,” Atiku had said.

“This is what the northerner needs; he doesn’t need a Yoruba or Igbo candidate. I stand before you as a Pan-Nigerian of northern origin,” he added.

Bayo Onanuga stated in response to Atiku’s recent statement that northern Nigerians did not need a Yoruba or Igbo president.

He decried Atiku’s statement as the worst expression of ethnocentric opportunism ever uttered by a former vice president.

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“This clearly demonstrates how low a man once honoured with the second highest office is willing to sink in search of a perennial wild goose chase after the highest office in the land.”

“It confirms that Abubakar feasted on such base, cheap primordial sentiments to use the masses and northern elites as a ladder to ascend to power in 1999 without any dividends to show,’’ the APC spokesman stated.