By The former vice president refuted multiple media allegations that he had participated in the democratic selection of the PDP’s nominee for governor of Kogi State.
We wish to state categorically that such media reports are a false and gross fabrication. It is therefore absurd to suggest that Atiku has a preferred candidate in the primary election to produce the governorship candidate of the PDP in the Kogi State election – or in any primary election, for that matter.
Atiku is a consummate democrat and the hallmark of his political struggles has been for the enablement of internal democracy in party politics.
For the avoidance of any doubts, Atiku Abubakar has no anointed candidate in the Kogi State primary election.
He believes that the decision to elect the flag bearer of the PDP in the coming election in the Confluence State is the responsibility of electors in that primary election.
He therefore urges anyone amongst the candidates to desist from peddling influence with his name and, indeed, calls on the media not to lay prostrate to any blackmail against him.
Atiku believes that all the aspirants in the election are up to the task of flying the flag of our great party, the PDP and the electors should be given the unfettered rights to perform their constituted duty of electing the best person for the PDP.
