Former presidential aide Laolu Akande has criticised the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s reported place on energy returning to the North, describing the argument as an insult to Nigerians from the area.
Akande, a former Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Media and Exposure within the Place of job of the Vice President, made the remarks whilst talking on Symfoni TV on Friday.
Talking at the readiness and viability of presidential applicants forward of the approaching election, Akande argued that the rustic should care for the main of rotational presidency to advertise a way of belonging amongst its quite a lot of areas.
“Atiku is solely mainly announcing that, ok, the North is indignant; we wish energy again. And that concept, with due recognize to our brothers within the North, is an insult. It’s an insult. This nation, we should care for rotational presidency for functions of establishing a way of belonging,” he stated.
Talking at the ADC’s number of presidential candidate, he stated, “In the event that they had been critical, they must have picked Amaechi, or they must have avoided Obi from leaving, after which Atiku would were a celeb.”