Atiku Should Emulate GEJ And Congratulate Buhari – Ohanaeze

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has asked the Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to emulate GEJ and congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari.

This advice is coming after the Supreme Court threw out the Appeal of the PDP and its candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, citing lack of merit.

Ohaneze has now said Atiku needs to accept his fate and unite with FG to enhance Democracy in the country.

Ohaneze wrote, “This is a clear testimony that he will surely hand Over to a Nigerian President of Igbo stock in 2023.

“We appreciate the doggedness of Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of PDP in 2019, OYC urge him to emulate Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s footsteps and place a Congratulatory call and message to President Muhammadu Buhari or Vice President Yemi Osibanjo on the supreme Court Judgement on 2019 Presidential elections, Atiku had demonstrated his faith in the Judiciary and should accept his fate and join hands Federal Government to ensure Nigerians enjoy Good governance and dividends of Democracy”.

“With this Victory at Supreme Court, North through President Muhammadu Buhari will enjoy uninterrupted eighth Years tenure till 2023, and definitely with fairness and equity, President Muhammadu Buhari will surely hand Over to a Nigerian President of Igbo stock as the only Southern Zone yet to take a shot at the Presidency since 1999, We enjoin Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to declare Support for 2023 Igbo Presidency project as the best way to appreciate the support Igbos gave him in 2019, and we wish to categorically state that Igbos will continue to support the President Muhammadu Buhari until 2023, There will be Mass Exodus of Igbos from PDP to APC in the nearest future, including South-East Governors and senators”.

Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.