Group says Atiku has ‘accepted’ to run for president in 2023

An interest group, North East Business Communities for Atiku 2023, has said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accepted their call to join the 2023 presidential race.

The National Chairman and National Coordinator of the group, Abubakar Jibrin and Dr Ali Bappayo Adamu in a statement they jointly signed in Gombe yesterday, said Atiku accepted to run during their recent visit to the state to open the group’s state secretariat.

Atiku who was the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election but lost the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.

The group said he is still the best man to win the 2023 poll in view of his wealth of experience in politics, governance and business.

According to the group, it would purchase the expression of interest and nomination forms for Atiku, when the time comes, lamenting that the North-Eastern part of the country suffered political marginalisation since the demise of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

“We are not doing this for Atiku, but for our region and our country and we are ready to pursue this cause to success,” the group said.

It further described the former vice president as a nationalist and detribalized Nigerian