Atiku Cannot Be The Option For Today’s Nigeria – Adegboruwa Blasts PDP

Popular lawyer, Ebun Adegbowura (SAN) has urged Nigerians not to vote for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 elections.

He submitted that the Atiku presidency is not what Nigeria needs at the moment as the former Vice President has shown too much desperation for power.

He accused the PDP of ‘throwing away’ its constitution and decency in order to accommodate the ambition of Atiku.

The lawyer said both the PDP and Atiku showed disregard for the plurality of Nigeria by picking a candidate from the same region and religion as President Muhammadu Buhari who will be completing his 8-year-tenure in 2023.

Adegboruwa said the decision of Atiku to reject the popular decision of the PDP Committee set up to select his Vice-Presidential candidate has shown him to be an incurable dictator, who may be worse than Buhari if trusted with power.

Speaking further in an article shared on his Facebook page on Wednesday, the senior lawyer said Nigerians should “reject PDP and its leprous ticket.”

Adegboruwa went ahead to list the ominous dangers of an Atiku presidency to include:

1. Undue and unbridled desperation for power leads to ineffectiveness. This has been the case with Buhari and so it shall be with Atiku, who has lusted for power beyond human understanding.

2. In order to satisfy the political ambition of Atiku, PDP ate its own vomit, threw away its own Constitution and rejected decency and justice embedded in the power rotation doctrine. If PDP will not honour it’s own Constitution, how can it be trusted with the Constitution of Nigeria?

3. In seeking to succeed Buhari from the same Northern region, Atiku and his supporters do not believe in the plurality and unity of Nigeria.

4. In seeking to succeed Buhari who is a Muslim of the same faith with him, Atiku does not believe in the secularity of Nigeria as stated in our Constitution.

5. In rejecting the popular decision of the PDP Committee set up to select his Vice-Presidential candidate, Atiku has shown himself to be an incurable dictator, who may be worse than Buhari if trusted with power.

6. An Atiku presidency will translate to 16 years of unbroken presidency of the North, which will lead to more agitations and may snowball into disintegration.

7. An Atiku presidency will translate to 16 years of Muslim-Muslim presidency, which will facilitate more terrorist attacks, lead to marginalization of people of other faiths and likely increased persecution.

8. Having regard to our collective experience under the inglorious Obasanjo/Atiku regime, an
Atiku presidency will translate into loss of national assets, mortgaging of our commonwealth and uncontrolled senseless capitalism, leading to poverty of the masses.

“Atiku cannot be the option for today’s Nigeria. I, therefore, all urge all people of good conscience to reject PDP and it’s leprous ticket,” he concluded.