Atiku Wins PDP 2023 Ticket, Promises to Unify the Nation, Party
ABUJA/Nigeria: The Former vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Saturday night clinched the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ticket to be elected as the candidate of the party in the 2023 presidential election.
The election which was organised by the party’s Special Convention to chose the party’s candidate was held in the main bowl of the National Stadium in Abuja, had about 13 of them aspiring for the ticket.
At the end of the elective process which was done through elected Advoc candidates one each from the 774 local government of the country, saw Atiku Polling 371 votes to defeat the Mr. Nyesom Wike who polled 237, Bukola Saraki 70 votes.
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State got 38 votes; Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, scored 20 votes; a former Senate President, Pius Anyim, got 14 votes, while a former President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Sam Ohuabunwa, polled only one vote.
In respond to his victory, the former Vice President promises to unite the aggrieved members of the party, formerly asking those who had left the party to come back to the party, for the good the party and the nation.
Speaking further, he frowned at the division in the country based on regional and religious divides, promising to unite every section of the country if elected as the president of Nigeria in 2023.
