Atiku's greatest error was permitting Obasanjo full second time period – Osita Okechukwu

A basis member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has revealed the most important political error the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, made whereas he was vice chairman.

Okechukwu stated Atiku’s greatest political error was permitting former President Olusegun Obasanjo to go for a second time period.

Atiku, who was Obasanjo’s deputy, was nursing a presidential ambition within the 2003 election however finally dropped the plan to permit Obasanjo to have one other time period in workplace.

Speaking with journalists on Sunday, Okechukwu listed a number of the political errors Atiku has made in his pursuit of the presidency.

Okechukwu stated, “Atiku’s third unforced political error appeared to mirror his first in 2003, when he hurried into a presidential ambition rather than exercising patience in the established political tradition of the Fulani I know, by allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to complete his constitutionally permitted second term.

“The second unforced error was when His Excellency breached Section 7 of the PDP Constitution and the subsisting rotation conference between North and South in 2023.”

He maintained that the unfolding ADC crisis offers another reminder that political leadership requires patience and strategic engagement, as “political technique is just not merely about assemblage of political group; but in addition about timing, obedience to the rule of regulation and conventions cum battle administration”.