Can any good come from Atiku Abubakar?
Atiku Ababakar By Ben AHANONU While some Nigerians have described as Freudian slip Atiku Ababakar's recent odious remarks about Yorubas and Igbos, I, however consider such as acerbic rantings of a politically handicapped and drowning man that catches at a straw. Atiku Abubakar said during the recent Arewa town hall policy dialogue in Kaduna, that: “What the average Northerner needs is somebody who is from the North … he doesn’t need a Yoruba Candidate or an Igbo candidate”. I am not surprised by Atiku Abubakar's desperate pronouncement because as a drowning man with defeat staring in his face and which he must embrace soon, Atiku, has resorted to whipping up ethnic sentiments - he cannot and will never rule Nigeria. He claims to be a bridge builder and unifier but his actions and pronouncements portray him as antithesis of a pan-Nigerian politician. A unifier cannot go to southeast and promise to ...