We in APC were ‘anxious’ before PDP primaries, ‘but when Atiku emerged, we were glad for so many reasons’- Ndume

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, Senator Ali Ndume has described the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as a walk over for his major opponent, President Muhammad Buhari of the APC

Ndume who made the statement in Abuja, said the PDP would have been a threat to APC if they had presented an unfamiliar candidate.

“We all know where we were and where we are now. Had it been they are presenting a new person, someone that Nigerians do not know, that may have been a threat but with Atiku, no way”.

He noted that although the APC was apprehensive of the PDP primary elections, yet the emergence of Atiku was not in any way a threat to the APC and described him a walkover.

“Next election is a walk-over with Atiku.

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“We were anxious when PDP was to organise their primaries but when Atiku emerged, we were glad for so many reasons.

“Atiku was our Vice President for eight years and he was one of the most powerful vice presidents we ever had and we know what he did.

“He was under former President Obasanjo and in his book Under My Watch, he voluntarily described who the Presidential candidate is.

“Let us analyse it. North West is where the president comes from and we are banking on our highest votes there and if you go to any part of the North West, you will realise that his popularity is unprecedented. Then if you go to North East, Buhari is a moral obligation”, he said.

He accused the former vice president of neglecting persons displaced by insurgency in the North East by not sending relief materials to them despite being from the region.

“We have to vote for him (Buhari) because we know where we were with the government of PDP in my state, including my local government, my town and even my house were taken over by Boko Haram.

“It was the government of President Muhammadu Buhari that salvaged the situation and now my people are back to our local government.

“Those that are trying to take over from him or compete with him were there before.

“Atiku was the vice president and one of the richest Nigerians ever, but I cannot remember Atiku taking even a bag of rice to our people that are suffering in Borno and he wants to be our president.

“For me, this election is between Nigerians and the Nigerian corrupt.
Atikus background is known. All the show of money from him, Saraki and others are what they got from politics, peoples money”, he said.

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