A former Vice-President, Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar, has said that the elite are against him because they feel he
cannot be manipulated.
Atiku also said there were fears
in some quarters that it would be difficult for him to be manipulated if he
became the President.
The former Vice President said
this at a media chat in Abuja organised by the United Nigeria Group.
When asked about what was wrong
with Nigeria that stopped someone like him from getting elected, he said, “It
is what I call the conspiracy theory of the political elite.
“If you are not going to be used,
if you are not going to satisfy their personal aspiration, then, they will
think you are not good enough.
“Part of the problem they have
with me is that they say I am independent, principled and so on.
“Honestly, it is the conspiracy
of the political elite and unfortunately the Nigeria public is not politically
sophisticated to override the conspiracy of the political elite. They rely on
the political elite to direct them.
“I want the job of the President
of Nigeria because more than any other time since the time of our democracy, I
think we need a leadership that has the experience, that has the capacity and
the know-how.
“The most challenging issue in
the country today is the issue of unemployment and creation of jobs, unity in
the country and states. I believe I am more suitable to handle all these.
“As a civil servant, I worked for
over 20 years in the federal bureaucracy and as a politician, I served
successfully for eight years as the Vice-President and in that position I
chaired the economic team of that administration and I brought so many
innovations to our administration that led to the creation of jobs, creation of
wealth and prosperity as well as relative peace and stability.
“Nigeria lost a lot of foreign
investments under Buhari.”
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