Another presidential candidate withdraws from race
As the race for the presidential election heats up, another presidential hopeful has withdrawn from the contest.
Eunice Atuejide of the National Interest Party (NIP) threw in the towel on Wednesday, effectively removing herself from the list of those vying to occupy the nation’s highest political office.
This is coming a few weeks after the former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili made her own exit announcement from the presidential race.
Unveiling this in a statement, Atuejide disclosed that her decision to step down from the election was because her race for the presidency was programmed to end on February 16 “and it did.”
In the same statement, Atuejide pledged her support for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar based on his choice of VP.
Her statement reads in part;
“I choose to fight for the benefit of every Nigerian on the side of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. I cannot defend PDP for giving us bad leadership from 1999 to 2015, yet I cannot help but blame the APC for doing a much worse job from 2015 to 2019.
“Plus, whether we call them PDP, APC, PPA, ANN, YPP, or NIP, we are all the same people moving from one political platform to the other in search of a place to speak out and be heard.
“To my mind, the political party platform is not the real issue nonetheless, it’s either Alhaji Atiku Abubakar under the PDP or President Buhari under the APC this time.
“I make bold to state unequivocally that I stand with Atiku under the PDP this time.
“Mr Abubakar picked an amazing VP. In fact, even though I have never met or spoken to Peter Obi, it is thanks to him that I am today the Founder and National Chairman of a youth-led, digitally organised political party (NIP). His exemplary leadership as Governor of Anambra State led me and several of my team members to politics.”
No comments