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Politics of Saturday, 22 October 2022

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Unite PDP, Wike before running for president - Shettima to Atiku

Kashim Shettima is the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Kashim Shettima is the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

Kashim Shettima, the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken a swipe at Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Shettima who was speaking at the unveiling of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s manifesto, on Friday, October 22 in Abuja said Atiku who cannot unite the largest opposition party should not seek to be president.

The former Borno governor urged Atiku to reconcile aggrieved PDP members before running for president.

He said: “Atiku Abubakar, who could not put his own political house in order, cannot aspire to lead Nigeria.

“Unfortunately, the leading opposition party set out to exploit the nation’s rotational arrangement and refused to read the national mood. And this has long backfired, and turned their presidential dream into a televised national circus.

“A presidential candidate that cannot put his own political house in order cannot aspire to lead the nation.”

His comment is coming when PDP is enmeshed in a leadership crisis.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been at loggerheads with PDP’s leadership since Atiku emerged as the party’s presidential candidate.

While Wike accepted Atiku as the party’s flagbearer, he, however, called for the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as PDP’s National Chairman.

Leading some State governors, Wike said Ayu and Atiku, who come from the same region, represent injustice.

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