It will be uncharitable not to empathise with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in his long quest to occupy Aso Rock villa. It has been a long journey through the gates of successes and the gates of frustrations in the land of politics where nothing is ever what it seems.It will be uncharitable not to empathise with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in his long quest to occupy Aso Rock villa.
The race was his to run but not for him to be the first to breast the tape. Politics does not often produce the best man for the job. Some incompetent men capable of mediocre leadership breast the tape and leave the best men for the job at the starting block. After the Supreme Court affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu, it was not unreasonable for some of us to expect the former vice-president to transform himself from a grieving political juggernaut into a good sportsman who knows that winning and losing are facts of life, more so in competitive games. We expected him to congratulate the president, roll up his mat and thumb his nose at the electorate that repeatedly denied him the key to the gates of Aso Rock.
He, like some of the major figures in the pro-democracy movement in the country, has some physical and metaphorical welts to show for the struggle to end military rule and give democracy back to our country. He first sought the people’s mandate during the transition to civil rule programme of President Ibrahim Babangida. In 1993, he lost the presidential nomination of his political party, SDP, to the late Moshood Abiola.
In 2011, a panel of northern elders chaired by the late Adamu Ciroma chose him as a northern consensus candidate for the 2011 presidential election. Again, things did not go down well for him. He soldiered on and was once again nominated as the presidential candidate of PDP at the party’s convention in Port Harcourt on October 7, 2018. Absent of luck, he lost the 2019 presidential election. He picked up himself again for the February 25, 2023, presidential election on the platform of PDP.
As Abubakar told the press, “This quest is not for or about Atiku Abubakar. It is a quest for the enthronement of truth, morality, and accountability in our public affairs.” More than 40 dogs, including a litter of 10-day-old puppies, were set free from a slaughterhouse in Vietnam on Friday after its owner quit the dog meat trade.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
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