PM NEWS
Former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Alh Atiku Abubakar unwittingly indicated, during his press conference in Abuja on Thursday, that he along with his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo manipulated the 2003 elections in the Southwest in order to replace governors of the states with PDP candidates.
Atiku said at the conference while feeding questions from journalists that he was the one who saved the then Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, who is now the president of Nigeria, from being rigged out like his colleagues in the region.
Atiku revealed that when then President Obasanjo wanted the PDP to take over the Southwest states he insisted that Lagos should be spared.
“I said, leave Lagos alone,” he said.
This revelation has reminded Nigerians of the heist of the 2023 election under Obasanjo and Atiku’s watch.
It has also given credence to the general belief that the then Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige, SAN, a principled and uncompromising political heavyweight in Southwest, was removed from circulation in 2001 by the nation’s authorities in order to pave way for the PDP to have a field day in the rigging of 2003 general election…
