Personally, I feel sorry for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the main opposition party, People's Democratic Party (PDP), because he is surrounded by political spongers who are telling him lies.
Atiku's worst problem is he has no grassroots movement like incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC). And without that, he cannot even rig his way to the Presidency.
Everyone of the political jobbers and opportunists surrounding Alhaji Atiku Abubakar are well known to me; including my fellow old boy, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce. I have 29 years presidential campaign experience that none of them can match, because they don't have it. And you cannot give what you don't have. You can only fake it.
When High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, PhD, Hon. Babatunde Ereola and others were running the presidential election campaign for Alhaji Bamanga Tukur in 1990 and I was an aide in the office of the Director of Publicity, even the current Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki was still collecting pocket money from his great father, Oloye Abubakar Olusola Saraki (17 May 1933 – 14 November 2012) when I was already in a presidential campaign team in my 20s. That is why I know that without grassroots movement, no presidential candidate can win any presidential election in Nigeria, except he or she decides to buy all the votes of majority of the voters who are rural dwellers and not the urban dwellers and elites, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is depending on, because he is not a man of the masses like President Muhammadu Buhari whose political leadership is based on grassroots movement of the power bloc of northern Nigeria. He is even more popular than Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Adamawa, the home state of Atiku.
In conclusion, pandering to the whims and fancies of the political elites, jobbers and spongers surrounding him cannot help him to win the presidential election. The majority of the voters at the grassroots don't care whether he went to Dubai to draft his presidential campaign strategy or travelled to America to prove that he was not banned from entering the United States of America. Only Almighty God knows how much he paid his political jobbers for the arrangement of the trip..
Did anyone notice that he rushed in and rushed out of America and was not welcomed by the Nigerians in America as a popular presidential candidate?
~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, author of The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream: My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election and other books.
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.
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