After the PDP presidential primaries which saw the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s flag bearer for the 2019 presidential elections, a lot of media reports, online messages and sponsored analysis of the political scene have suggested that the PDP candidate will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari who himself defeated an incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 with a wide margin.
Nothing can be further from the truth as Alhaji Atiku Abubakar cannot now or ever prevail against President Buhari in any nationwide or statewide contest for that matter, not even in the former Vice President’s home state of Adamawa which President Buhari won decisively in the 2015 polls.
Firstly the Waziri Adamawa (Atiku Abubakar) is a weak candidate without a solid political or populist base either in his state the Northeast region or the nation as a whole. He has never contested an election on his individual standing apart from the Adamawa state governorship…
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