‘Our nation will not accept an ethnic bigot and tribal champion’ – FFK fires Atiku over statement
All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) head of new media, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lambasted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over a recent statement.
Atiku, during an interactive session with Arewa Joint Committee at the weekend in Kaduna, allegedly said that Northerners needed someone of his stature and not a Yoruba or Igbo president.
The statement has come under condemnation from many including Fani-Kayode, who said Nigeria will not accept an ethnic bigot as her president.
“This is especially so, given the fact that by next year, we would have had eight years of Northern/Fulani rule and now this man (Atiku) says we must have another eight years of it because that is what is ‘best for the North’.
“Most Northerners do not believe this and thankfully, they, unlike Atiku and members of his divided party, do not see Southerners as slaves and they regard us all as being equal.
“We will not allow Atiku to do to us what he did to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. We will neither be cheated nor denied.
“It is time for power to shift to the South and an overwhelming number of the people in the North and certainly all the Northerners in the APC believe that. They recognize the fact that if we want our nation to continue to enjoy peace and remain united into the distant future, we must be fair in our dealings with one another.
“Atiku is a dying breed who still sees things from a regional, ethnic and religious prism. Nigeria has moved on from that and she deserves better. Our nation will not accept an ethnic bigot and tribal champion as their President.
“Atiku Ibn Dubai does not speak for the North, he speaks for his deluded and blind PDP supporters and his PCC. Nigeria does not need a Northern or Southern President, she needs a Nigerian President and Bola Ahmed Tinubu is that President,” added Fani-Kayode.
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