TIME TO LET GO OF YOUR PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION, BODE GEORGE TELLS ATIKU

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Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peopleā€™s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, yesterday, urged Atiku Abubakar to give up his 31-year presidential ambition.

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Also, he advised the former Vice President Atiku, not be to be desperate to be president in 2027. George added that the PDP is not the ā€œprivate enterprise of any individual.ā€

The former Military Administrator of old Ondo State spoke at a press conference in Lagos.

According to him, ā€œIn the build up to the 2023 presidential election, I shouted myself hoarse about the crisis, which was started by the ambition of Atiku Abubakar, Iyorchia Ayu, David Mark and others.

ā€œPitiably, nobody listened.

ā€œWhere is Iyorchia Ayu today? He has simply disappeared.

ā€œI can boldly say that Atiku, Ayu and others gave the opportunity for Bola Tinubu to become the president today.

ā€œIf I may ask again: Why is Atiku so desperate? Some of us wonā€™t allow your desperation to destroy this party. You can even leave PDP and go to your business partner in APC. At least, you did it before.

I am bold to say it that PDP is not the private enterprise of any individual. I sat with him for hours before the 2023 elections that the right thing should be done. He refused.

ā€œSome of our members are already working for him because of 2027.

ā€œIs he the only one in PDP? Why are we not looking in the direction of the Southern part of the country for a younger candidate?

ā€œMy advice is this; he will be 81 in 2027 and he has been contesting for the presidency since 1993.

ā€œThis is the time for you to calm down and act like an elder. I appeal to you in the name of the Almighty Allah that you serve to take it easy and leave everything for posterity.

ā€œAs leaders, we must not allow anybody to destroy our party because PDP is the only true national party.

ā€œThe APC is just a mere congregation of strange bedfellows.

ā€œA Yoruba adage says ā€˜the flood has the intention of destroying a house but the landlord will not allow itā€™.ā€

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