Foreign The presidential candidate of the people’s Democratic party PDP in the last election atiku abubakar has vehemently rejected the verdict of the presidential election petition tribunal which held that the petitions by the candidates and their parties lacked Merit thus upholding the election of tinubu in a press conference held in
Abuja yesterday atiku rejected the verdict saying the battle to upturn tinubu’s Victory continues the former vice president who called himself a fighter said he had instructed his legal team to file an appeal at the Supreme Court meanwhile ositao kichuku a foundation member of the rulinol progressives Congress APC and the director general of
The voice of Nigeria says he fully understands the grief of the opposition parties over the Judgment of the presidential election petition Court he said that although the main opposition PDP had bright chances of bouncing back to the 2023 presidential election the political greed of the Party’s candidate former vice president atiku abubakar
Denied the party Victory he further stated that atiku’s failure to rise to the golden opportunity and play as a Statesman by swallowing support for his erstwhile running mates petobi or any other Southern presidential candidate divided the opposition party joining us now is osita okichuku a foundation member of the really known
Progressives Congress and the director general of the voice of Nigeria Von good morning and welcome to the morning show good morning sister ayo good morning Dr Ruby good morning incisive refi and good morning Nigerians good morning sir well good morning Mr kachuku well uh you know I was just coaching you
As saying that a former vice president atiku abubakar is greedy and you know what is greedy and so somebody trying to be president of Nigeria and then also seeing you respects the courts but that the matter of the presidential election petition here and his party will go all the way
Uh to the Supreme Court and you know USA is greedy I will confirm if you really said so then the vice president is saying he will retire him to fumbina where he can go and be rearing goods and and broilers and layers and all that look I thought this
Matter is far more important than uh characterization of principal actors in the drama rather than you know focusing on the substantive issue of the Judiciary planes but other parties playing their part where do you stand in the matter let me start by congratulating president ucfr congratulating Nigeria and our democracy commanding his Excellency
Atiku abubakar commending his Excellency Peter Obi for applying the Democratic route and their supporters Nationwide for remaining calm and following the Democratic route of the process of from one tribunal to the other we pass through that under muhammadu buhari in 2003 we lost we went to court and state for almost 18 months
In 2007 we lost with this same 2011 we lost who did same so we’re happy they are following the Democratic Lane because it’s the safer Lane in a sub-region that is that has toxic anti-democratic forces so I thank them immensely on his Excellency article abubakar without being a Mothers I have great
Respect for him and I slept over it I said what kind of a first error must have made his Excellency to lose the golden opportunity of becoming a state a real spaceman in Nigeria you belong to a political party that had a better than his Constitution the rotation convention and you were there
In 1999 or even before what took off far back before them when the late doctors was to win the defunct app in kaduna and his Excellence letter emerged but they were persuaded that the power she rotate so that we can have peace so that our democracy could be enduring Equity peace and justice
In that context he became a southern contest and a passenger unlikely it’s Excellency I took her back I was a beneficiary of that experiment because there were prominent Northerners more prominent than him then coffee adamuchiruma abubakarimi they all said for the peace Unity of their country and for the growth of democracy vegetation
Their personal interest the same his Excellency I took up in 2018. in 2014 voted out a PDP presidential convention when Jonathan emerged that it is the turn of the North a wall applauded him who said yes is the turn of the North he came to us in APC
Lost and went back to PDP and in 2018 presidential primaries graciously Governor wika then the then governor of River State hosted the PDP and all these Southern aspirants we drew I left the arena for only Northerners on the interest of the fact that we are brothers
Yeah for some of us who are sickest that if he don’t have the alliance understanding between the North and the South who will be joking none of them participated even weaker himself was qualified then to beat for the presidential candidate of the ap of the PDP but all of them in
Interest of our common Equity peace and Justice did not run his Excellency had to come back and you emerged that he didn’t win in the 2019 presidential election does not face test my mean you must run when it was the turn of the of the South and luckily
The APC governors of the North in their own wisdom following the same rotational zoning convention wrote a public letter to President the then president buhari on June 4th stating that we are qualified to run but we place out their country our citizenry ahead of our personal ambition we are not running
I’m president buhari called them to a meeting and they said Mr President none of us run him and that we are given the chance to the South so that our brothers will keep faith for next time because I now was in a paradox all right how should his Excellency
I took abubakar breached his own practice Constitution bring the zoning convention I said your first error might be out of greed because when I was watching the television in those days I saw my big brother his Excellence your question he knows the world preparing an argument
That the election is going to be like that of 1979 when it was between two Southerners iconic few days later our own colleague they celebrated was on the same track I said huh why are these people so naive do that thing did not then they electorate one of the most subsequented
Electorates in the country that they are in a dormitory you just open the door and fire them to vote for atiku oh I miss okay the same is Excellency was broke out of his original panda perspective and resorted to paranoid nationalism when he told the Northerners vote for me because I’m their own
I couldn’t sleep that night because I know his Excellency very well he was very close to one of my big uncles yeah who was then the Minister of Foreign Affairs he was also very close to one of my mentors a blessed memory I was surprised I said
From my own calculation if if it is not why the unforcerer why should we damage the PDP that day I concluded that Ashley is going to imagine you cannot stand all right thanks for um stating your position on what you believe might be the reason why and for the outcome of
The PDP at the just concluded 11 at the last elections but something the PDP or um allergies might disagree with you on is part of their petition is that the reason or one of the reasons why they lost was as a result of how badly conducted elections were especially you
Know by inec in fact in your submission and your response to the Judgment given by the court of appeal that’s the PPC you’d mentioned that going forward we should have a another look at the Electoral act especially mandating the electronic accreditation and transmission of results so even in your
Estimation you faulted the process by which or how inec handled the handle the last election that’s part of what umaka is saying is responsible for his loss at the polls not his greed what do you have to say about that thank you very much when the PDP started caucusing I will
Call her with my good friend his Excellency Bala Muhammad who actually as minister of the Dead minister of fct allocated the plot of land where I’m living today to me freely I said your Excellency why don’t you people obey the convention there’s the law in the public domain and there’s the convention
I don’t want to talk about the Lord deeply because they are going to the Supreme Court I was happy when they are still playing the Democratic crew saying they will get to the last court but what I’m saying is that when you hear people shouting about internal democracy on the
Political parties it’s part of the process of the election you cannot because of your muscle just imagine what could have happened will anybody start saying that they could not gather enough agents they could not gather enough papers if his Excellency article has supported people be or any Southerner for that matter
He could have been what we were expecting because I’m concerned about the growth of democracy in their country and the growth of democracy has shown that in advance countries of the democracies of the world you mature to a multi-party system where there are two dominant political parties so the peoples
Idea will be rotating about the message the ideology the principles of those two major political parties yes the flaws of not having enough agents not picking the papers before I even talk about the transmission of the result was basically if a PDP had I was afraid
Prior to the election until when the PDP mismanaged breached because you’re not their own party breached the zoning convention I know that the storm will catch on them it happened to us in 2003 buhari had extensive votes 12 million votes in the North they decided I said no and some numbers
Who did not vote for us they said no it’s only at all we lost so I’m talking of the storm if you are trying to bridge the storm there will be consequences one of those consequences the incapacity of the PDP to be in a position to run around a cohesive plan
Where they could have offer 1000 76 000 agents on the lineup all of them please let’s follow in the papers and I make right be handicapped but as you said I’m feeling going forward a president and my gray party another political parties who must come back to look into the tiny elements
To make electronic transmission of resolved mandatory the other day I was passing through to buy groundnut void groundnut and the lady told me that please let me finish my call that’s the roadside Trader and I look at the sun it was a smartphone go to any Village in the country you
Fight people with smartphone with the list of phones so let’s go electronic all through so that we we can conclude cases before swearing in okay I believe it to be done okay I believe that I should be disposed to the Amendment of the Constitution further a lot of people
Did not believe buhari will do so he did so so we can also do so again okay but the only difference is that a lot of people did not believe what I would do so he only did so when it suited him because he didn’t do so when he saw
Supposed to do so when he had an election in 2019. you remember how it delayed and he looked for all sorts of Clauses it was after he was living that he decided to do so so let’s put history in perspective God bless you sir real quickly let’s come to
It I would like to know your honest assessment of inec because one that you are saying that we should have used or dpd our laws for electronic purposes they are copious facts that I next said technology was going to lead the way on all the electoral process it was couple of days
To the elections or when the technical glitch happened that we heard otherwise leading up to the election their empirical facts that the inec chairman said technology bivas is going to lead the way it was said in Chatham house it was said in many conversations as a video making the rounds of
Festivals saying it he came here to say many many times and in fact let me use your word vaccine because you two touted that fact so how is it that all of a sudden your so-called rigging vaccine that you said President Obama to give us
As well give us a legacy the court is now saying that is not mandatory to use this region so why was the rigging vaccine in the first place so in your own assessment of inec what would you say about this election sir uh rufai can I be honest with you yes sir
There is as I said in my Village that the lady that started cooking for a long time do you mind that started cooking for a long time has more species of porcelains is that shall I say I took abubakar and his Excellency they took her from the political family
Of we call it PF in the 80s when we started I was a liberal conversion there was also the bigger association called the PSP for God’s sake whether you like it or not could have won immediately PDP house was divided whatever that caused the glitch I do not know but all I know
Is that no matter how you pack the pieces like what the the prior to the the primaries don’t forget I was one of those I I I wrote a public statement appealing to actually run that is the turn of the sun is and the next day they told me that the key
Maker want to be king and I met one of the governors of the of the my good friend of the north I said you Excellency why are people not supporting us in the southeast he said if the PDP that should compensate you people because I teach Tony voted for the PDP
And you said we have our own Alliance tinubu has started collecting pieces of the porcelain that Governor told me that why was running to the for the governorship I don’t want to mention the amount he dropped a body long streets he couldn’t sit actually the first day the
Second day met him he said sir I’m running for governorship of social State he said his buhari supporting you said yes there are then he called a president buhari and said are you supporting this Governor he said yes he said okay give me an account number
He said few days later the bank called him and said hey Elijah we don’t know you know sometimes there are mistakes in our banking process the money that arrived in your account had never been there before is there any money You’re Expecting even forgot he told him please give me
Two days he started scratching he said until it occur to him that he should he said the place there was the other thing you said to me he said yes that there’s a young man he will call you he’s the one why you you go go ahead with the
Campaign keep in touch with him these were the foundations he laid and then his Excellency I took her back I was also aware there’s no way he could have won the issue of the glitches as you said we must sustain it because there was a time and one public officer said that the
Port doesn’t need telephone but today we have seen how useful the telephone is to report I believe I agree with you I did a small book on that that the Beavers is a very rigid machine and we must sustain it but I don’t know what happened but he could have won because a
Divided house is a divided house no so what’s your assessment of inec on all of these promises here and their promises not fulfilled that’s what I’m asking so what’s your assessment because you were part of those that came to tout and celebrate this votry give vaccine but today Nigerians had this grounded
They said your vaccine did not work it didn’t kill the covet of election rigging your vaccine did not work elections and results were massively disputed Countrywide that’s why where we are where we are today it is not it is not very appropriate to this to throw away the baby and the bathwater
And I don’t believe in the the fallacy of generalization if you know what happened these days where incumbent governors lost foreign what is the matter the matter is the same device if you go through the processes now this Senator have been had lost in the in the
Courts this house or Redman had lost in the same machine the rigging machine that provided nobody had told you that inec did not acquit himself in the National or state assemblies elections did anybody say so what I’m saying is that democracy is not a revolution it’s evolutionary why
Advancing we are increasing by the day from the worst reports that let’s say convoked have we not been benefiting by the day saying there are no flaws on the part of high neck I’ll be I won’t say so we need to go very quickly yeah doctor yeah you
Are director General voice of Nigeria we enjoy having you on the morning show you know again and again but don’t you see a contradiction in your role west of Nigeria are you supposed to represent the whole of Nigeria but you are more of a voice of the APC
That’s likely to be confusing for some people and I’ve taken time out to go and check the website or voice of Nigeria you know it’s all about parts of Nigeria under your watch should not be about chinubu it should be about selling Nigeria to the world don’t you see a contradiction here
Briefly because we’re running out of time we have just about a minute to go please go back to the website of voice of Nigeria WWE on.gov.ng if you go back there you will see that we try to reflect the good works going on in Nigeria what the reference point today
Those who are who social media abroad they refer back to us but I will give you our feedback what will be next or when you’re back in Abuja I’ll take you to our studio you sell our feedback what the reference points what I’m doing as an elder Statesman
I’ve been in this politics for 48 years 45 years starting with PRP 1978. I’m trying to throw light those who want to to overcry on why the PDP lost that they should know we have to pinpoint where they where the the the material condition that that led to a divided
House yeah The Obedience club in the PDP all that ob1 where PDP stronghold in those who like us who believe in rotation that after eight years in the north it should go south after eight years in the South it should go north for Brotherhood Amity fraternity equity
And Justice thank you okay thank you very much Mrs director general of the voice of Nigeria for joining us on the morning show
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