{"id":222716,"date":"2022-10-19T05:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=222716"},"modified":"2022-10-19T05:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T04:06:03","slug":"atiku-doesnt-need-to-apologise-over-north-needs-northerner-comment-pdp-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/10\/19\/atiku-doesnt-need-to-apologise-over-north-needs-northerner-comment-pdp-chieftain\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku doesn&#8217;t need to apologise over \u2018north needs northerner\u2019 comment \u2013 PDP chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osita Chidoka, a former minister of aviation, says Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), comment that northerners need a president from the north was misconstrued.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Last Saturday, during an interactive session of the Arewa townhall policy dialogue in Kaduna, Abubakar told his audience, who were mostly northerners, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/10\/15\/video-northerners-need-me-not-yoruba-or-igbo-candidate-atiku\/\">they don\u2019t need an Igbo or Yoruba as president but \u201csomeone from the north\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comment of the former vice-president had sparked divergent reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking when in an interview with Channels TV on Tuesday, Chidoka, a member of the PDP presidential campaign council, said the former vice-president does not need to apologise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I like about politics is how people can stand up on something \u2013 a statement is made, it is misread, misinterpreted and turned around to make up for campaigning. It is politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlhaji Abubakar was addressing northerners and he was explaining the need for Nigeria to have a pan-Nigerian president. He said \u2018I\u2019m a northerner like you but I\u2019m pan-Nigerian \u2013 I have built bridges across the country\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is anybody not quoting that part of the statement? Why is anybody not talking about the fact that he has built bridges across the country for 35 years? He said \u2018I\u2019m a pan-Nigerian and that what we need now is not an Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa president for that matter; that what we need now is a Nigerian president\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we need to move beyond the political gimmick that goes on when people say one thing, we turn it the other way round and we use it for political ends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point he is making is a very clear point; the point that we need a Nigerian president who will unify the country, understand the issues, and be able to solve them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that it is a statement that warrants any apology or discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osita Chidoka, a former minister of aviation, says Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), comment that northerners need a president from the north was misconstrued. 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