2027 Presidency: Surely, I Will Run – Atiku

Atiku Abubakar who served as Nigerian Vice President under President Olusegun Obasanjo has made it clear that he will run for Presidency in the 2027 election. This came against the background of speculation that he might not contest the next election.
Atiku’s new position was made public by his 2023 campaign spokesperson, Tunde Olusunle, in an interview with Thisday newspaper.
Tunde Olusunle quoted Atiku as saying: “I will run in 2027. Nigeria needs to be decisively rescued from the intensive care unit (ICU) it has been consigned to. The degeneration in our country, the level of poverty and pain, the anguish, is unacceptable.”
Atiku, who contested for the nation’s Presidency on the platform of the People’s Democratic Part (PDP) in the 2023 general election, reassured his supporters that the new coalition, African Democratic Congress (ADC) would “shock the world” in the 2027 presidential election, despite what he described as attempts by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to discredit them.
He said that the current government of Bola Tinubu is full of what he called “unprecedented theft,” stressing the urgent need to rescue the nation.
Atiku stressed that his intention to run for election in the coalition is to challenge the status quo in 2027.
“The accompanying deceit, the loss of values, the mega-scale, unimpeded thievery and the absolute lack of accountability must disturb every concerned patriot.
”I will be offering myself to lead the reclamation and reconstruction of our traumatised homeland, ” Olusunle quoted Atiku as saying.