Former
vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said he is not desperate to become
Nigeria’s president, come 2019, as some Nigerians have said. Atiku-Abubakar “If
I am desperate, I wouldn’t have stepped down for M.K.O, Abiola in 1993
presidential race,” he said.
Abubakar, who stated this in an interview with BBC
Hausa morning programme, yesterday, said if Nigerians could follow his
political antecedent, they would not see him as a desperate politician.
“In
1993, I contested with M.K.O. Abiola. I later withdrew from the race.
In 1999,
I was elected a governor of Adamawa State, then invited to be Nigeria’s vice
president, under Olusegun Obasanjo,” he said. The former vice president said in
2007, he contested against former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to show the
world that he had the right to contest, stressing that he did that to satisfy
his conscience.
He said: “All the times I have been contesting for the
presidency, I have been opportune only once to be presented to Nigerians as a
candidate,” he said, adding that the remaining times, he ended up only at the
primary election.
“I could have become Nigeria’s president in 2003 when
virtually, all the state governors then, rallied support for me to contest
which I declined. I am not desperate to be president as some Nigerians view
it.”
“As a former vice president, I am opportune to know things. If I am
opportune to be elected as a president, I will accomplish my mission by
reviving the economy, by making Nigeria an investor’s haven. “The present
administration discouraged investors into the country, because the Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN) exchange rate policies is too tedious for investors.
CBN has
three different exchange rate policies, which is not supposed to be. “If
elected Nigeria’s president, I will expand the nation’s source of wealth to
cater for the growing youth population in the country.
Nigeria can justify my
claims, going by the number of youth that are working in my industries across
the country.’’
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