The former Edo state governor, and the present deputy director of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has predicted that Atiku Abubakar of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will be rejected by Nigerians in the 2023 election, and he will relocate to Dubai, as he has always done after losing elections.
As reported by Vanguard, Oshiomhole made the statement while featuring in Arise TV morning show on Wednesday.
He was clarifying the APC vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, statement that was misquoted, when he said Atiku would be retiring to Dubai after the 2023 presidential election.
Oshiomhole said, “Given Atiku’s record of movement, that once he suffers a defeat – it is on record, once he loses an election – he moves to Dubai. And so, he is saying because we are confident that nothing has changed. Nigeria has rejected him three, four times, and even the best partnership he enjoyed in 2019 with Obi did not deliver him. Now, his ticket is not as potent as it was in 2019.
“We are confident that, God willing, using the same Nigerian people who had rejected him in the past, they will reject him again. And because once he is rejected, he has a history of relocating to Dubai. That is what the Vice president meant.
“And I think Atiku will actually relocate to Dubai, he has been doing it. He is comfortable there. I hope that the ban on Nigeria does not affect him. Hopefully he will go there.”
