Presidential running mate: APC’s placeholder sign of ill-preparedness – Atiku

Presidential running mate: APC’s placeholder sign of ill-preparedness – Atiku

 

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has berated the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and others over their inability to come up with their “permanent” running mates within the time-frame stipulated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The former number two man said the nation’s top job does not need someone who is hesitant to make decision in picking his running mate.

Apart from Tinubu, former Anambra state governor and presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) among others, did not meet INEC’s deadline in submitting names of their running mates.

Both Tinubu and Obi sent placeholders to INEC pending when they would be substituted with substantive running mates, but Kwankwaso eventually named Ladipo Johnson as his…

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