Photo: Ex-Gov Tapgun
PDP will win 2023 presidential election with Atiku’s candidacy if … —Tapgun
Sir Fidelis Tapgun, a former governor of Plateau State, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election with the recent emergence of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as the PDP’s flag bearer.
Tapgun, who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Jos, stressed that only Atiku was capable of seizing power from the APC, adding that PDP will win the election particularly if the APC picks its presidential flag bearer from the southern part of the country.
According to the former Nigerian Ambassador to Kenya and Director-General of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s re-election camptan in the 2023 presidential election, Atiku is a perfect match for President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC).
He explained that the PDP had decided to throw the contest open so that the best candidate would emerge, adding that the party took the decision because they were in the opposition.
“If we don’t unite and bring out the best candidate that will deal with the APC, we might end up not seizing power from them in 2023.”
“Atiku has the means to tackle the APC, he has been in government for a very long time and in PDP right from the start, even though he crisscrossed once in a while.
“Atiku has structures in all parts of the country. There is nowhere you go in this country and you won’t find Atiku’s person there.
“All the aspirants that contested the primaries were qualified but we wanted someone that can stand Buhari and his APC and when we seize power from them we can now decide where next to zone the presidency.”
“What we want now is to rally everybody behind Atiku and make sure that we take power from the APC.
“My prayer is for the APC to zone power to the South and Nigerians can be rest assured that the PDP will defeat them hands down”.
He continued: “Before now, there was a lot of wrangling, agitation, people thought the party would break because of zoning, but the party in its wisdom decided for now that every eligible candidate can contest.
“We are all witnesses to how the primaries went, and the party rather than breaking as expected by some people is, however, waxing stronger.
“I am a proud member of the PDP because we are showing people how to be organised and how to bring Nigerians together”.
Tapgun, who was Nigeria’s Minister of Commerce and Industry during President Obasanjo’s second tenure, was Governor of Plateau State from 1992.to 1993, when the military coup of the late Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha aborted his tenure and Nigeria’s Third Republic.
