The Atiku Support Organisation (ASO) has said no amount of campaigns of calumny against former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, will stop him from becoming the next president in 2023.
Mr Akinze Moze, Director, Support Groups, stated this at a briefing in Abuja. He described the former Vice-President as someone who will represent and protect the interest of the youth.
They called on him to present himself for the presidency in 2023.
At the moment, he said, Nigeria requires a leader with two fundamental characteristics; the experience to untangle our socio-economic and political quagmire, and the determination to chart a sustainable future for our country.
He condemned what he described as sponsored attempts to malign the former Vice-President.
He said: ”Nigeria requires a leader with two fundamental characteristics; the experience to untangle our socio-economic and political quagmire, and the determination to chart a sustainable future for our country.
”We clamour for an Atiku presidency in 2023 because no politician in Nigeria’s history has invested in preparing himself for the office of the president of Nigeria, as much as Atiku has.
“We need a leader that identifies with the youth. We need someone who is ready to lay an impregnable path for the younger generation to take charge and this cannot happen by magic.
As Vice-President, Atiku began the process of recruiting young minds to the political space.
Some of the most successful public servants we hear of today were brought in their youth by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. We need him to complete the works he started. His transitional presidency will serve that purpose.
”This is a man who has guaranteed 40 per cent of his cabinet appointments to the youth,including the physically challenged people if given the opportunity, a detribalised Nigerian, a man whom we refer to as WAZOBIA; having family roots in all parts and segments of Nigeria which connotes unity in diversity.
”We note with dismay the many sponsored attempts at maligning our principal and we know the actors behind them; within the PDP and beyond. Our message is simple; we remain unshaken in our resolve, and they will all be put to shame eventually.”
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