2019: I’m not Atiku’s running mate— Peter Obi

Peter Obi, ex-governor of Anambra state, says reports that he had been selected as running mate to former vice-president Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election are false.

Abubakar is an aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election.

Valentine Obienyem, media aide to Obi, in a statement on Thursday, described the report as mere speculation.

“When I read the news in the papers and on social media, knowing fully that no presidential candidate has discussed such issue with him otherwise I should have known. When I saw the news, I exclaimed, ‘Who is the author of this mischief?” Obienyem said.

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“I immediately brought the news to the attention of my boss who is rounding off his speaking engagements in U.K. and the USA and he was equally surprised that such speculation should be on at this time, when the pre-occupation of all Nigerians should be how to end the killings in parts of the country and return the country back to sanity.”

Obienyem appealed to Nigerians to disregard the news.

According to him, the PDP’s preoccupation at the moment was rebranding and producing a formidable flagbearer, not the choice of a running mate.

 

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