Charles Okogene
Former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel had been speaking on the qualities. reasons qland how former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Ababukar, emerged the winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), beating the likes of Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and Dr. Bukola Saraki, to second and third places respectively.
Otunba Daniel who was at that time , the Director General of Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation in a chat with journalists in his Maryland, Lagos residence, attributed Atiku’s victory at the presidential primary held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital to his (Atiku’s) intimidating qualification which is not limited to the experience he gained as an ex-VP but includes his experience as a businessman who created and still knows how to go about reducing Nigeria’s unemployment ratio, his cosmopolitan outlook and above all, his liberal stance on religion.
Though, he admitted that all the other candidates the former vice president floored to pick the ticket were eminently qualified to preside over the affairs of Nigeria, he insisted that Atiku towers over and above all of them having sought the ticket of various parties in the past to occupy the office.
He also gave an insight into the goodies that await the people of South West geopolitical region despite the belief by many, that the region has lost everything in the party following the decision to zone the chairmanship of the party South South contrary to unwritten agreement of the leaders of the party, if eventually Atiku wins 2019 election.
He also took time off to speak on the agitation of the Yewa people of Ogun State to produce the governor of the state and how his industrial policy, led to the sighting of a branch of Nestle and the commissioning of the biggest brewery in Ogun state.
Watch out for the full details of the chat.
