Thread by @HisKnowledgeabl

2019: HOW NDIGBO MADE ATIKU A SALEABLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

Pathetically, the last few days, Ndigbo have come under severe attacks by some twitteratis from the North/South West, who are avid supporters of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar- @atiku, over #NigeriaDecides2023.

2/ It is barely 30months to #NigeriaDecides2023. Ndigbo are saying, for Equity & Justice, power should shift to the South, particularly, the South East, since incumbent @NGRPresident Muhammadu Buhari will be completing the turn of the North, by May 29, 2023.

3/ Hell no, avid supporters of former Vice President @atiku ain't having it.

@HAHayatu, @olushola_shola, et al, have in the past few days continued to slander the Great people of Alaigbo for standing for Justice & Equity?

4/ Fact remains that since the return of civil rule in 1999, @atiku has been an unsaleable Presidential material, until the 2019 Presidential election, when majority bloc of Ndigbo backed him, even ahead of the @OfficialPDPNig Presidential Primaries in October 2018.

5/ Critically examining precedents of Presidential elections in Nigeria, even dating back 1979, Ndigbo didn't back @atiku in 2019 because he picked their illustrious son, @PeterObi, as Vice Presidential candidate on the platform of the @OfficialPDPNig. Hell no!

6/ Rather, Ndigbo threw their weight behind an @atiku/@PeterObi Presidency based on merit and competency, as had always been the case since time immemorial.

7/ The calamitous state of Nigeria, under the Buhari/@ProfOsinbajo regime, the last two years, and still counting, has proved that Ndigbo were indeed right on their choices in 2015 & 2019.

Buhari/Osinbajo got 3 more years to go. Let's pray Nigerians survive their #NextLevel.

8/ That said, @HAHayatu, @olushola_shola, et al, should look at these figures:

2007 Presidential Election Results

1. Umaru Musa Yar'Adua- 24,638,063 votes.

2. Muhammadu Buhari- 6,605,299 votes.

3. Atiku Abubakar- 2,637,848 votes.

9/ 2011 Presidential Election

@atiku was unsaleable that he couldn't get the ticket of the major political parties- @OfficialPDPNig nor ACN.

2015 Presidential Election

@atiku was unsaleable that he couldn't get the ticket of @OfficialAPCNg. @MBuhari won the ticket.

10/ 2019 Presidential Election Results

1. Muhammadu Buhari- 15,191,847

2. Atiku Abubakar- 11,262,978

One fact remains: Those who've keenly followed @atiku's Presidential ambition since 2003, know he was indeed an unsaleable Presidential material, even in the North, until 2019.

11/ Howbeit, #NigeriaDecides2023 is barely some 30months from now.

So, if @atiku's avid supporters such as @HAHayatu, @olushola_shola, et al, are banking on the scam called 'Northern Population' to malign and disparage Ndigbo, I say, to God be their glory. 

'Na here we dey.'

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