The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated Bola Tinubu on his victory at the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n
Abubakar emerged as the candidate of the opposition party at the PDP special convention in May, after defeating Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, among others.<\/p>\n
The former vice president took to his social media pages to congratulate the former governor of Lagos State, stating that the APC presidential primary was a hard-fought contest.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations, @officialABAT, on your emergence as your party\u2019s presidential candidate. It has been a hard-fought contest, but that you prevailed confirms your tenacity,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Also, the Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has congratulated Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n
In statement on Wednesay afternoon, he told Tinubu and the former aspirants: \u201cI congratulate you for the good and wonderful outing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kalu said \u201ceveryone did enough campaign needed to win the primary election but it is only one candidate that will represent the party in the general election.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing the APC candidate, Kalu said: \u201cTo my friend and colleague, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has been elected as our party\u2019s presidential flag bearer, big congratulations to you. The APC won.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated Bola Tinubu on his victory at the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress. Abubakar emerged as the candidate of the opposition party at the PDP special convention in May, after defeating Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and former Senate President, Dr Bukola […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":194488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[91,1029,3439,35767],"class_list":["post-194486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-atiku","tag-kalu","tag-presidential-primaries"],"yoast_head":"\n