By Abdul Alli
The former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government has set Nigeria on a destructive path saying that his mission to contest 2019 Presidential election is to rescue the country from total collapse.
Turakin Adamawa stated this in Rivers State on Tuesday where he declared his ambition and canvass for the support of the Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike in the realisation of his ambition.
In his statement, Atiku said; “We all know what we have gone through in this country in the last three years. I can tell you throughout the whole of today that where the APC left us in the last three years whether in the education sector, health, or in the economy, we have been going down in every statistics. That is why I have offered myself to run for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2019”.
Atiku who is aspiring on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP added that “Since 2015, we have not seen a 100 kilometres of road constructed by the APC Federal Government anywhere in the country.
He pointed out that Nigeria as a country has never been divided as what Nigerians are witnessing today under Buhari-led APC. According to Atiku: “I have never seen Nigeria so divided along religious, ethnic and regional lines as a result of the mismanagement of the APC,”noting that he is offering himself to set the country on the path of growth, after the serial failure of the APC.
He maintained that since 2015, the APC-led Federal Government has destroyed the education, health and infrastructural sectors through poor budgetary allocations and releases.
The former vice president was accompanied by former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, former Enugu State Governor and National Chairman of the PDP, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo, former Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa and Senator Abdul Ningi.
In his welcome address, Governor Wike urged PDP members, irrespective of their status, to ensure that the march to the Presidential Villa was not truncated by disunity, adding that PDP presidential aspirants to contest within acceptable limits, as the race was not a do-or-die affair but a movement to oust the APC.