Presidential ticket: Win or lose, I will remain in PDP – Atiku vows

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the 2019 general elections has reiterated that he would remain in PDP if he lost the ticket to run as the nation’s president next year.

He made this declaration while fielding questions from journalists shortly after meeting the Oba of Benin, in his palace in Benin City, to seek royal blessing for his political aspiration.

Alhaji Atiku, also noted his decision to contest for the position of the presidency was borne out of his dire desire to improving the lots of Nigerian.

He added that he was not desperate to be the nation’s president. “If I was desperate to be the nation’s president, I would have long achieved it and not jave stepped down for the late Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola, the winner of the 1993 Presidential election under the platform of Social Democratic Party (SDP).

“What do you expect my critics to say. And there is nothing wrong in entering the race. I can run as many times as possible. I am fit, qualified. I still have ideas that I believe that are going to put this country at the right part.

“So, what is wrong in running. I am not desperate and if I was desperate, I would have taken the presidency in 1993. If I was desperate, I would not have stepped down for Bashorun Abiola. I am not desperate.

“I will remain in the Peoples Democratic Party if I was not given the ticket to run as the nation’s president in 2019.”