“Atiku not destined to be president, PDP ticket will no be wasted again” — Wike’s aide

Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to abandon his ambition to govern the country in 2027.

Olayinka emphasized that the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate is not destined to lead Nigeria, suggesting that it would be futile for him to pursue another presidential bid.

Olayinka in a statement on Thursday in Abuja said “the PDP presidential ticket will no longer be available to be wasted by serial betrayals of the party, who are obviously suffering the consequences of their past sins against the party and its members“.

Insisting that Atiku should perish the thought of contesting the 2027 presidential election as candidate of the PDP, Olayinka said “His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and those egging him on for their personal benefits should let the PDP breathe.”

FCT Minister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike stated during a live media session in his office in Abuja on Wednesday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who was the 2023 presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will not have an opportunity to secure the party’s ticket in the 2027 elections.

Reacting through his Media Aide, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku alluded to his defeat of Wike to pick the 2023 PDP presidential ticket as well as the former Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, to emerge as the candidate in 2019.

However, in a statement on Thursday, Olayinka, said Atiku’s “celebration of his narrow and fraudulent defeat of Wike in the 2022 PDP primary is funny and childish”, adding that “it is like Arsenal fans jumping to the rooftops to celebrate the club’s narrow defeat of Super Falcons.”

He said; “That Atiku is venerating himself for contesting PDP ticket with Wike and Tambuwal, people who were just a little above 25 as of 1993, when he contested the Social Democratic Party SDP presidential primary and came third, is the more reason he needs to go home and rest and stop acting like the proverbial cock that failed to realize that it is now elderly.”

Describing Atiku as someone not destined to be president of Nigeria, Olayinka said; “It is obvious that he (Atiku) is paying the price of betraying the PDP in 2003, 2007 and 2014. If not, the same presidency he has contested twice and lost, could have been his to just pick if he had avoided being inordinately ambitious while he was Vice President.

“It was this desperation that made him to contest for president as candidate of Action Congress in 2007, while still serving as Vice President, elected under the platform of the PDP. A serving Vice President joining others to form another party and contesting as candidate of the new party against his own party. That’s Alhaji Atiku Abubakar!

“Most importantly, Atiku’s conscience will continue to prick him on his roles in Lagos in 2023, and I am sure that even his apology to PDP members in 2018 can never remove from his body, that garment of betrayal.

“Therefore, it is again being sounded to his ears and those of the people lying to him that he is the only one who can win the presidency for the PDP that the ticket of the party will not be for someone like him, who will lose election and run to Dubai, only to come back two years to another election”, Olayinka added.