2023: Atiku visits Obasanjo, Alake, tells youths to compete with elders

Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has challenged Nigerian youths to compete with elders for elective offices in 2023, including the office of the President, instead of seeking to deny the old ones the constitutional rights to pursue their presidential ambition.

Atiku who was the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019, hinted that the electoral field was also open to the younger one to “compete”.

He however expressed confidence that he would get the PDP ticket for 2023 presidential race.

The Waziri Adamawa spoke while fielding questions from reporters after a closed-door meeting with his ex-boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his pent house inside Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The ex-vice president who arrived OOPL at 10.10a.m. went into a private meeting with his host, saying, “I came to see my boss.”

He was silent on what he discussed with Obasanjo during the about an hour-long meeting.

“I came to meet my boss. We will let you know when I declared, we will give a formal announcement. Have I ever failed to get the ticket?

“Let the youths compete with the elders. It is competition. It is democracy,” Atiku said.

Atiku later proceeded to the palace of Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, in Ake, Abeokuta where he recalled his stint in Ogun State as a trained Customs Officer.

Although, Atiku did not disclose his political ambition at the palace of Alake but the revered monarch prayed that God would grant him his heart desires.