Peter Obi Was In A Rush, Scared Away By PDP Governors – Atiku

Atiku Abubakar on Thursday opened up on how Peter Obi was allegedly scared away from the PDP by the governors who he said had vowed to take the presidential and vice-presidential positions in the party ticket prior to the national convention.

The PDP presidential candidate who spoke at a press conference on Thursday night said that he, however, stood up to the governors and won.

He also described the last weekend presidential election as the worst in the history of the Fourth Republic. He, however, said that the decision on a judicial resort would be finalized by the party.

Along the way, he expressed his doubt on the judiciary saying that he took President Olusegun Obasanjo to court 11 times and got judgment without seeing any judge. He expressed concern whether such was still possible.

Atiku who admitted that Obi took votes from him in the Southeast and South-South said he had always seen himself as the stepping stone to an Ibo president of Nigeria.

He said:

“I have always said that I would be a stepping stone to an Ibo president of this country. I have always told my Ibo compatriots that you negotiate for power you don’t fight for it.

“I think Peter was in a rush. When the campaign started and our PDP governors said that they must produce the president among them, they must produce the vice-president among them, they must produce chief of staff amongst them, Peter got scared and left.  

“I did not get scared, I stood up against the governors. When we formed the PDP some of them were perhaps in secondary school or in university. So, why should I be afraid and I stood up and fought them and I won the primaries. So, if he were there, nothing would have stopped him from becoming a running mate because I had the right of choosing who would be my running mate. Yes to some extent he (Wounded) the PDP because all the votes he got were PDP votes in the Southeast and South-South but whether he will achieve his objective is something left to God to decide.

“If he was there, nothing could have stopped him from becoming my running mate,” Atiku said of Obi if he were supposedly not pushed away by the PDP governors.

On the prospects of getting judgment from the judiciary, he said:

“I took my boss, a sitting president to court 11 times, trial court up to Supreme Court and I never saw any judge and I got judgment. But do you think it is possible to do that today? I cannot say whether it is the same judiciary until I test them.”

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