A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Birthday party, Bode George, has denied claims that he didn’t help the presidential ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar within the 2023 election as a result of Abubakar isn’t from his area.
George, who just lately declined his appointment to the PDP Nationwide Disciplinary Committee, addressed the problem all the way through a TVC political programme on Sunday night time.
The previous Nationwide Vice Chairman of the birthday celebration refuted the claims made through the Atiku camp, pointing out that his shortage of help was once because of Abubakar allegedly dividing the birthday celebration all the way through the election marketing campaign.
He mentioned, “When Buhari contested towards Atiku Abubakar, they got here to invite for my help. I used to be at the vanguard as a result of, at that moment, he was once favoured as a presidential candidate. I do know what I did in Lagos, together with my efforts for the primary girl, his first spouse, and what we did right here, all in line with the birthday celebration’s charter.
“Let me inform you, I don’t have any hint of tribalism in my blood. Nowadays, my highest buddy is a gentleman I met within the army.
He’s an absolutely bona fide Fulani guy. He’s my brother at each and every degree. I’ve many such buddies throughout this nation. If you can not discuss the reality to energy, next you’re deceiving your self.
“After we returned for the second one election, the ultimate election, we noticed that issues weren’t proper. Anyone from the North had simply spent 8 years. How may we now help someone else from the North for every other 8 years? It doesn’t paintings that means.
“They manipulated the system. We kept warning them not to do this. He divided the party, which led to our votes being divided, and consequently, we lost. So, how do we move forward? We will set up a committee to review the general election and the post-election period to prepare ourselves.”
The PDP chieftain additionally advised aggrieved birthday celebration contributors to put aside their private ambitions for the sake of the birthday celebration’s survival forward of the 2027 elections.