By Gideon Njoku
Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has gained a strong voice to his backyard.
Najaatu Muhammad who, on Saturday, resigned as both a Director on the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and a member of the Party, has disclosed that she would work with Atiku.
She resigned from the APC after a Presidential Rally in Yola, Adamawa State, on Saturday, where, according to her, they had to beg for the microphone to be taken away from the APC Presidential Candidate because nobody could decipher what he was saying.
She said Tinubu suffers from an advanced stage of dementia, and that she is loyal to Nigeria, not to any individual or Political Party.
On her decision to work with Atiku, Muhammad who spoke to THE WHISTLER described Atiku as the lesser of two devils.
She said: “What I’m saying is, if I have to choose between the devil and the deep sea, I’ll go for the deep sea. I will support Atiku, because over and above everything else, I follow my conscience. I’m not doing it for myself, I’m doing it for God and for my country.”
Tinubu Has No Plans For North
Unless Tinubu did not understand the questions she asked him, Muhammad said Tinubu told her he had no plans for the North.
She revealed that she had not met Tinubu since her appointment as a Director in his PCC but claimed the Candidate had no plans for the myriads of problems confronting the North.
At the London meeting with the APC candidate before her appointment, Mohammad recalled: “I asked Tinubu, ‘What do you have for us in the North? He looked me in the face and said “Nothing.” I said, ‘Sir, you mean you have nothing for the North? The question of security, out of school children, agriculture, and many things like that, everybody in the northeast is waiting to be killed or kidnapped.
She said she had a list of what to ask from Tinubu, but regretted that till her resignation, she was not allowed to meet with him and discuss them.
The breakdown of what she wanted to discuss with Tinubu, included: “The question of the Almajiri. They are the ones that are used as cannon fodder, for banditry. And then, the economy, agriculture, our currency. Do you know, I compiled these things till date I have not been allowed to deliver to him. So, you can see how patient I have been.”
I Don’t Care Who Asiwaju Is, I am Not Zombie
“I told Asiwaju I have no business being a zombie, I can’t be following you because you are Asiwaju, I don’t care who you are, I can only follow Allah. Because anyone that does not put himself on the scale of God, unto whom he will return, I think that person is a sick person.”
Kwankwaso Has No Chance Of Winning, He Has Met With Atiku
A native of Kano Municipality, when asked why she wouldn’t work with the Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, a two-time Governor of Kano State under the PDP, Muhammad said Kwankwaso has No chance, at all, of winning the Presidency.
“Kwankwaso does not stand a chance at the Presidential level. This is the reality that one has to think. In my position I can’t start to be sentimental, I have to be broad minded.
“I don’t wish for anything for myself. Everything I’m doing is out of passion for my country, I went to a public school, Europeans were teaching me in Kano at a public school, except for my primary and junior school that I went to a Catholic private school, I was the only black girl in the white school. After that, Baba put me in a public school all through to the university, it was public. But Now I have to pay through my nose for my child to go to Oxford, why?
“Millions of our children cannot go to school. They are the bandits that are hunting us today, this is by our creation, and we still lie until we all become victims.
‘Will you then talk to Kwankwaso to step down for Atiku’?, she was asked.
And her answer:
“No, you don’t ask anybody to step down for anybody. They had a meeting the last time, and I wouldn’t want to tell you what happened because its none of my business, I shouldn’t be speaking for him.”
She, already, has visited Atiku.
