The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has submitted that the party’s Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, ‘is a symbol of national unity, cohesion and tolerance who is loved in all parts of the country’.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba in a statement on Sunday, condemned what described as attempts to deliberately distort, doctor, misinterpret and take out of context, the comments made by Abubakar.
‘For clarity and avoidance of doubt Abubakar remains a Pan-Nigerian leader. He has never and will never set any part of our country against the other as being mischievously hyped.
To set the record straight, the PDP Presidential Candidate, in responding within the context of the question put to him at the event noted that he had built bridges across the country and that what Nigerians including an average northerner need was a Pan-Nigerian leader and not an ethnic champion’ the party said.
The party therefore calls on all Nigerians to remain focused on the mission of the PDP to ‘rescue, reunite, rebuild and restore our nation on the path of peace, national cohesion and economic prosperity, which the Atiku/Okowa Presidential ticket represents’.
The Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) had accused Abubakar of only paying lip service to national unity.
Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity of the council said on Sunday in Abuja that Abubakar had resorted to ethnic ‘jingo’ in the face of imminent defeat in the upcoming 2023 presidential election- Team@orientactualmags.com
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