Tinubu asks Atiku to step down, endorse him
Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in what appears his reply to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moves to use court to stop his presidency project, has asked his the leading opposition’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to step down and endorse him ahead of the February 2023 presidential election.
Asiwaju Tinubu, a former senator of the Federal Republic and two-term governor of the nation’s most complex state of Lagos, asked Atiku to reciprocate the “gesture” he gave to him when he contested for the presidency in 2007 under the defunct Action Congress (AC) and he dropped his ambition and endorsed him.
The APC candidate made this remarks while addressing a meeting of Northern leaders at his own schedule of the meeting with presidential candidates by leaders under the umbrella of Arewa Joint Committee for an interactive session.
The meeting is planned for the leaders from Northern part of the country to know and discuss plans of the presidential candidates for the region ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The appearance of the APC presidential candidate came two days after his rival in the PDP engaged in similar interaction with the northern leaders.
The interactive session held at the Arewa House in Kaduna was organised by a coalition of six groups from the North including the Arewa Consultative Forum, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation,, Northern Elders Forum, Jamar Matan Arewa, among others.
