Atiku Abubakar And An Alignment Of Star -By Kene Obiezu

Finally, Nigerians can glimpse a new dawn on the horizon. After seven years of a leadership laden with unfathomable darkness, Nigerians can look forward with hope because a refulgent light has finally been lit at the end of the tunnel.

Between the 28-29th May 2022, the Peoples Democratic Party converged in Abuja for its national convention. A country of over two hundred million held its breath because the biggest fruit of the convention was to be the election by delegates of the candidate who would fly the flag of the party come the 2023 general elections.

Now, for many reasons, the 2023 general elections are poised to be the most important since Nigeria returned to the path of democracy of democracy 23 years ago. The elections will be critical because even Nigerias have felt the overpowering stench of the incompetence with which Nigeria has been led in the last seven years. If it was just the hardship foisted on long suffering citizens by the All Progressives Congress, it would have been a tad bearable. However, the Nigerian nightmare has been compounded by the fact that in addition to children and their families having nothing to eat for many days, insecurity, pounding the country from all sides, has made being a Nigerian almost unbearable. Indeed, even security personnel, for so long the defenders of the Nigerian people, seem to be at their wits end.

At the end of the primaries, which were as transparent as any that have been held in the living memory of Nigerias democracy, Mr. Atiku Abubakar, twice Nigerias Vice President, emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, beating off competition from other candidates.

If Mr. Atikus grass to grace story as the orphaned shepherd boy who rose from the obscurity of Jada in Adamawa State to the pinnacle of Nigerias political power, does not warm the cockles of the heart enough, then his urbaneness, exposure, detribalized nature and most importantly, his vision for a unified Nigeria, and uncommon business acumen,stand him in good stead to reposition Nigeria.

In 2015, it was democracy that flexed it considerable might when the All Progressives Congress trumped the Peoples Democratic Party to the position of the presidency in historic elections. To do that, the APCs ruthlessly efficient propaganda machine took the grey areas of the PDP-led administration and blew them out of proportion.

Today, however, let Nigerians be the judge. With the benefit of hindsight let Nigerians be the judge of which political party has actually given power to the people which is the essence of democracy. The last seven years under the APC has been about milking Nigerians of power.

Nigerian youths can especially recall the lethal force with which their contemporaries were mauled down at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20,2020 under the orders of APC-led Lagos State Government and the APC-led Federal Government.

We do not also need to remind Nigerian women of how many of their husbands and children have been slaughtered by terrorists while APC-led governments have watched on. Do we need to remind them of how many of their daughters have been raped as insecurity has taken leave of a country sinking under a rudderless administration.
The stars are finally set to align for Nigeria to lift the darkness that has drenched the country in the last seven years. The stars will align around Mr. Abubakar Atiku, the Unifier. Nigerians can make this happen with their votes in 2023.

There is no doubt that the All Progressives Congress and the coterie of charlatans it is set to put forward as candidates in 2023 can have no answers to Nigeria`s problems. Nigerians who have been once beaten must now be twice shy by completely rejecting them and the load of lies they will come with.

Kenechukwu Obiezu is the Director Public Relations of the PDP New Generation.