2023: APC, Tinubu, Others Rap Atiku Over North’s Choice Comment

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  Atiku Abubakar, has come under fire over his utterances about the North’s choice of presidential candidate to vote in the 2023 presidential poll.

The All Progressives Congress (APC); its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and other Nigerians yesterday berated the PDP standard bearer for declaring during the Arewa town hall policy dialogue in Kaduna on Saturday that the North does not need a Yoruba or Igbo president.

“What the average Northerner needs is somebody who is from the North; he doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate or an Ibo candidate,” Atiku had stated at the event.

But reacting to Atiku’s comment, Tinubu said the former vice president cannot speak for the Northern region on its choice of president, just as the governing APC warned that he would would cause disunity among Nigerians and inflict the worst kind of strife if he  is elected president.

Tinubu spoke through two of his spokespersons,…