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Ahead of the 2027 wide election, erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has called connected Nigerians to ballot according to their conscience and not connected the ground of people oregon region.
Atiku, a ranking subordinate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), described tribalism arsenic the bane of nationalist advancement and a malignant illness that indispensable beryllium shunned astatine each outgo by all, peculiarly the communal masses.
In a connection by his media consultant, kola Johnson, the statesmanlike hopeful said the elites basal retired arsenic the astir culpable culprit, fostering tribalism arsenic a divisive gimmick to acceptable 1 people against the different alternatively of seeing themselves arsenic 1 – agreed by a azygous indivisible nation.
According to him, the end-point of this divisive antics is geared towards achieving their governmental ambition by asking their chap tribes men not to ballot for a peculiar governmental contestant ‘for being truthful unfortunate to person hailed from different tribe’ alternatively than measure him by his sterling qualities.
“Your exclusive constituent of absorption indispensable needfully fuss connected the competence of the idiosyncratic based connected his antecedents amongst his galore qualities alternatively than what people oregon taste radical helium hailed from.
“In this coming election, I beseech you each arsenic my esteemed chap compatriots to ballot according to your conscience and ne'er ever let anyone to taxable you to the perverted delusion that you indispensable not ballot for a peculiar campaigner conscionable due to the fact that helium is Hausa, Igbo oregon Yoruba.
“Even amongst ourselves fto america statesman to cultivate our narration not connected the incidental question of people but arsenic communal brothers and sisters agreed arsenic chap compatriot done our communal belonging to 1 and indivisible nation.
“If I were to pertain my absorption solely connected tribe, I would surely not person been capable to wed my Yoruba-born wife, since the 70’s, who beyond my wildest imaginativeness has travel to beryllium my Jewel of Inestimable value,” helium stated.
Atiku said successful comparative appraisal, the archetypal republic stood retired adjacent till contiguous arsenic the aureate infinitesimal successful the annals of Nigeria’s governmental history.
He said this due to the fact that politicians of those days were comparatively overmuch amended disconnected successful presumption of integrity and achievements, astatine least, compared to governmental actors of the Second Republic till the modern civilian dispensation.
“Unfortunately, the venomous cankerworm of tribalism which dominated the authorities of that epoch proved to beryllium the irresistible unit which successful its invincibility, devastated that different memorable epoch and brought it to a grinding halt from which it ne'er recovered till date.
“This is to pinpoint successful poignantly wide presumption the limitless havoc inherent successful the monstrous scourge of tribalism which we indispensable each debar similar a plaque.
“Let america each unrecorded similar 1 azygous agreed household successful peace, harmony and communal co-existence, and physique this federation to the visionary imagination of our founding fathers,” Atiku noted.
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