2011: I’ll go ahead with my ambition zoning or no zoning -Atiku

Sunday, 08 August 2010 00:00

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and presidential aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said yesterday that he would go ahead and declare his presidential ambition in spite of the current controversy generated by zoning in the party.

Atiku, who spoke through his spokesperson, Malam Garba Shehu said, he would go ahead and declare his interest to contest the presidential elections in 2011 on August 15, at a world press conference at the International Press Centre, Abuja.

Atiku’s decision is coming at a time when the ruling party’s hierarchy is planning to take drastic decisions on zoning this week. It was learnt that PDP had summoned meetings of both its Board of Trustees (BoT) and its Enlarged Caucus meetings over the issue.

The BoT meeting, likely to be chaired by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, will hold on Tuesday; while the enlarged Caucus meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at the presidential Villa. The two bodies are expected to take decisions on zoning which is currently tearing the party apart in the last couple of months.

The former vice president’s aide told Sunday Trust that the on-going controversy over power rotation shouldn’t be seen as a hindrance to the Adamawa-born politician, who is only exercising his civic rights to “officially declare his intention of contesting the 2011 presidential elections at a world press conference.”

Ahead of his planned declaration, Atiku has already constituted a campaign organisation headed by Chief Chris Mamah, which is supported by an advisory council that comprises of mostly Atiku’s political associates that included Alhaji Lawal Kaita, Dr Audu Ogbeh, Senator Ben Obi, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, among many others.

The presidential aspirant is also scheduled to make public declaration at zonal and state levels after the Abuja declaration. The campaign advisory council would provide the campaign body with articulated political strategies.

Apart from heating the polity, the issue of zoning has also polarised the North, along pro-zoning and pro-Jonathan divides; even though the Northern Governors Forum (NGF) had, a fortnight ago, voted in favour of the retention of zoning in Kaduna.

Shehu said that the former vice president “would still await the PDP guidelines before campaign proper takes up.” According to Alhaji Lawal Kaita, a PDP chieftain and Atiku’s political associate had described the anti-zoning advocacy as “misleading and deceitful and aims at destabilising the PDP.

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