North Will Not Vote For PDP In 2015 — Atiku

Former Vice-President and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was in Lagos State over the weekend where he stated among other things that the North would not vote for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 presidential election, claiming PDP  had done nothing to attract votes from Nigerians.

At an interactive session with selected youths, he insisted that he would support whoever emerged presidential candidate of APC if he did not get the ticket, but expressed doubts on the ability of the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria, INEC, to conduct a free and fair election.

He was quoted on Vanguard as saying, 

‘’Asking me to not contest is asking me to give up on Nigeria. The North will not vote for the PDP because the party has failed everybody. This period presents an opportunity for change. Before now, the PDP was big and the absence of a viable opposition then allowed the party to become monstrous. But now with the APC there is choice. There is no way Nigerians can vote for the PDP in 2015. PDP has failed everybody. We all yearn for this change. We have got an opportunity to change but nothing came out of it because we had one big monster party. Today we have two equal parties. One good thing about it is that the APC provides an opportunity.’’

Kzoners, do you guys believe what Atiku is saying?