ATIKU BELONGS TO DYING BREED OF ETHNIC POLITICIANS, WE WON'T ALLOW HIM TO DO TO US WHAT HE DID TO WIKE – TINUBU

Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has fired back at the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, describing the latter as belonging to a dying breed of politicians who resort to base ethnic and regional sentiments in the desperate bid to capture power.

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Head of New Media at the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in a statement on Sunday said “such tomfoolery is rarely not seen from the worst amongst us”.

Atiku had at the weekend in Kaduna during an Interactive Session with Arewa Joint Committee, allegedly said northerners need someone of his stature and not a Yoruba or Igbo president.

He said, “This is especially so, given the fact that by next year we would have had eight years of Northern/Fulani rule and now this man (Atiku) says we must have another eight years of it because that is what is ‘best for the North’.

“Most northerners do not believe this and thankfully, they, unlike Atiku and members of his divided party do not see Southerners as slaves and they regard us all as being equal.

“We will not allow Atiku to do to us what he did to Wike. We will not be cheated or denied.

“It is time for power to shift to the South and an overwhelming number of the people in the North and certainly all the Northerners in the APC believe that. They recognize the fact that if we want our nation to continue to enjoy peace and remain united into the distant future. We must be fair in our dealings with one another.

“Atiku is a dying breed who still sees things from a regional, ethnic and religious prism. Nigeria has moved on from that and she deserves better. Our nation will not accept an ethnic bigot and tribal champion as their President.

“Atiku Ibn Dubai does not speak for the North, he speaks for his deluded and blind PDP supporters and his PCC. Nigeria does not need a Northern or Southern President, she needs a Nigerian President and Bola Ahmed Tinubu is that President”, added Fani-Kayode."