How Atiku Is Inching Closer To Becoming PDP Presidential Candidate

There are strong indications Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar would emerge the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party.

Sources claim efforts to achieve this development in “top gear”.

Those who should know disclosed the promoters of this agenda have so much stake in the plot that a structure that would help the former President win the general election is being put in place, even before he emerges party candidate.

“And he has some very serious backers within and outside the PDP” multiple sources confirm.

Societynow.ng gathered quite a number of “big time” businessmen are said to have started becoming more actively involved in the agenda.

The business community “suffered” greatly in the current administration’s claimed “clean up” of the economy.

Atiku is believed to be one of the very few with widespread contacts and national visibility to take on President Muhammadu Buhari who just confirmed interest in another term in office.

And with the sudden rise of the numbers of his supporters, it appears a growing number of people are buying into his being the “perfect alternative” societynow.ng gathered.

The Buhari administration faces a huge backlash from the populace over failed election promises and allegations of making living “harder” for the populace.

Atiku – a serial presidential aspirant – faces stiff opposition from the political class, especially the section of the nation’s leadership structure beholden to former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Interestingly Obasanjo the catalyst of opposition to Atiku becoming President has fallen out with re-election seeking Buhari, the man he helped to power.