APC will not survive after Buhari — Atiku

•  Tinubu will be next president — Adamu

By Saawua Terzungwe, Baba Martins, Abdullateef Salau (Abuja) & Umar Muhammed (Lafia)

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 polls, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not survive beyond 2023. 

Speaking during the inauguration of the PDP Youth Campaign Council in Abuja yesterday, Atiku also called on youths to leave Abuja and move to their constituencies, wards and polling units to campaign and deliver the PDP next year.

Atiku, a former vice president, said, “To be honest, PDP is the only political party. APC is not a political party; it is an alliance between the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Bola Tinubu’s party, and we have seen how alliances in this country have disappeared overnight.

“I don’t think APC will survive after these elections; we are going to vote them out, and by the time we vote them out, they will be dead. We expect you to go back to your constituencies and take this job seriously. It is about your future, the future of your children, family and the future of the country.

“PDP has succeeded in laying the foundation for a sustained democracy in our country.”

Tinubu will be next president – Adamu

But the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said that the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would win the election and urged him to get ready to assume the presidency of Nigeria on May 29, 2023.

Adamu spoke yesterday during a town hall meeting between the APC candidate and stakeholders in the mining sector in Lafia, Nasarawa State.

A statement by the Director, Media and Publicity, of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, quoted Adamu as saying, “Except God, President Buhari is the highest authority in Nigeria today. Buhari has said it and it shall come to pass.”

Adamu, a former Governor of Nasarawa State, urged voters not only in Nasarawa, but also in other states, to vote massively for the party and its candidate.

The town hall meeting had Governors Simon Lalong (Plateau), Prof Babagana Zulum (Borno) and Aminu Masari (Katsina) in attendance.

Meanwhile, Tinubu has pledged to make the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State fully operational if elected.

He stated that if elected as the president, his administration would develop the solid minerals sector.