If the media reports, first published by The Punch Newspaper, that Atiku Abubakar has offered Peter Obi, his running mate in the 2019 Presidential election, a similar role again, and that the former Governor of Anambra State is tinkering with the idea, weighing the option to earn the backing of his core ‘loyalists,’ then the man whose personality created the Obidient movement in the last election could be digging his political grave even before he achieves anything meaningful on the national scale.
This position might not be the conventional wisdom since, according to the source, Atiku’s deal is to serve for a four-year term and afterwards Peter Obi would be in the position of stepping in for the Presidential race. …CONTINUE READING
