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Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar has said Northerners do not need a Yoruba person nor an Igbo person to be the president, stressing that the country needs a Northerner to be the president of the country next year.
Atiku, a former Vice President of Nigeria, said this when he featured as a guest of the Arewa Joint Committee interactive sessions with various presidential candidates of political parties on Saturday in Kaduna State.
He stressed that what Nigeria needs to get her working again was a pan-Nigerian president and that the credential of national inclusivity, not ethnicity should be an ideal that the Northern part of the country should examine in electing a new president for the country in the 2023 elections.
He noted that with a political career spanning more than three decades, he stood shoulder-high as a Northerner who has built bridges of unity across the country, and therefore, more fit to be president of the country in 2023.
“I have traversed the whole of this country. I know the whole of this country. I have built bridges across this country. What the ordinary Northerner needs is somebody from the North and who also understands the other parts of Nigeria and who has been able to build bridges across the rest of the country.
“This is what the Northerner needs. He doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate or an Igbo candidate. This is what the Northerner needs. So, I stand before you as a pan-Nigerian,” the PDP presidential candidate said.
Delivering his speech at the event, Atiku highlighted the key policy agendas, which he intends to pursue if elected president to include promoting national unity through deliberate actions that would secure mutual trust and confidence among all tendencies.
The other policy areas that he enumerated were reforms in education, agriculture and reversing the economic downturn of the country.
The interactive session, which took place at the Arewa House, was attended by high-ranking leaders of various North-based socio-cultural bodies.