Fielding questions from Journalists, Atiku said Obasanjo can't Dictate Who Would Rule Nigeria In 2019
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, cannot decide who would rule Nigeria, come 2019.
Atiku, made this declaration a few hours after he held a more than 2-hour secret meeting with the former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babandiga Badamosi, on Tuesday.
He maintained that it is only Nigerians that will decide who controls the Presidency through the ballot.
Recall, that Obasanjo had recently called on the South-East, to take a shot at the Presidency, in 2019.
Fielding questions from Journalists, Atiku said such sensitive decision to hand over the Presidency to the South-East in 2019, is a collective one.
Asked if the recent position of his former boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on the subject would subsists, Atiku said it was for Nigerians to decide.
He stressed that the restructuring of Nigeria is not up to an individual to decide, but for Nigerians to decide collectively: “It is up to Nigerians to decide on the restructuring on Nigeria.”
When asked on his advice to the Federal Government on the state of things in the country, the former Vice President, said he cannot do so through the pages of newspapers.
