The drab Nigerian political environment has lightened up. The
expected ‘unexpected’ happened. Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of
Nigeria was elected at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries held in Port Harcourt recently.
It looked like this was never going to happen. Not just that this was the fifth
attempt of Atiku to become presidential candidate, but so much obstacle was put
on his way by seen and unseen forces. As if those forces were not strong
enough, the competition became even stiff in his new ‘old party.’ For the first
time in the history of PDP, there were 12 solid contestants, each who could
easily have become a formidable presidential material.
Indeed, the choice was a very tough one for the party. The party
was very conscious that the country was looking up to it to produce a
formidable candidate that will square up with President Muhammadu Buhari who
has received endorsement from 15 million All Progressives Congress (APC)
members to stand as the party’s candidate for the 2019 elections. Talking about
15 million APC members, reminds me of the video I recently watched of one Mr
Biggi who was trying to commit suicide by hanging on a plantain stem.
*Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar |