March 17, (THEWILL) – A group, North East Business Forum has purchased the 2023 Presidential Nomination and Expression of Interest forms for former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku is eyeing the presidential seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The group, which later presented the forms to Atiku at his Asokoro, Abuja residence on Thursday, said it is in fulfilment of their December 2021 promise to purchase the forms for the former vice president as an expression of their support for his presidential bid.
The PDP 2019 presidential candidate, while receiving the forms, expressed appreciation to the group for the kind gesture.
Waziri Adamawa lamented that the challenges confronting the country are very enormous and require collective efforts to tackle them.
He explained that, “In 2018 or 2019, some young men contributed money and bought me the nomination form, the first in political history since the return of democracy to our country and truly they made me shed tears. They put together their hard-earned money and purchased me the form. I was emotional about it.
“Today, like the chairman of the Northeast Business Forum said, we were invited and another gesture was extended to me. It was a promise. And today, it is a promise fulfiled.
“The challenges before us as Nigerians are enormous and in fact, we have never faced these types of challenges in the history of our country.”
He also observed that Nigeria’s unity is threatened, the economy is in the worst state of affairs, since the inception of this country and security is a disaster, these are very serious challenges, stating that “These are challenges that require the unity of everybody in this country.”
Atiku urged all Nigerians to unite themselves to tackle the very numerous challenges.
Earlier in his remarks, media mogul, Chairman Emeritus of DAAR Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, described Atiku as the most qualified to lead Nigeria.
He said the former Vice President is ready in his quest to salvage Nigeria.
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Pic 1: Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar addressing a delegation from the North East Business Community at his residence in Abuja on Thursday, after the delegation purchased and presented Atiku with the Nomination and! Expression of Interest Forms of the Peoples Democratic Party for the position of president.
Pic 2: Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar (4th from right), Former Governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna (extreme left), Former Senate Leader, Sen. Abdul Ningi (3rd from right), Chairman of TEECOM and member of PDP BOT, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi (2nd from right), Director General of North East Business Community (2nd from left), and others at the presentation of the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms by NEBC to Atiku in Abuja on Thursday, 17.03.2022.
Pic 3: Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar (2nd from right), former Senate Leader, Sen. Abdul Ningi, Director General of North East Business Community and Dr Ali Bappayo (1st from left) at the presentation of the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms by NEBC to Atiku in Abuja on Thursday, 17.03.2022.
Pic 4: Director General of North East Business Community, Dr Ali Bappayo (extreme left) presenting the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms for president to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and while former Senate Leader, Sen. Abdul Ningi, Chairman of TEECOM and member of PDP BOT, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi and others look on with keen interest in Abuja on Thursday, 17.03.2022.
