OpenLife Nigeria reports that the unending insecurity in Nigeria and its probable solutions dominated the discuss on Thursday when former Vice President Atiku Abubakar met the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s National Working Committee, NWC at the party headquarters in Abuja to intimate the party egg heads of his 2023 presidential ambition.
Speaking, Atiku said his desire to lead Nigeria is anchored on his desire to unify Nigerians, secure their lives and property, as well as improve the economy among other things.
“Secondly, I said I was going to deal with security issues there has to be security before anything else. Mr Chairman and members of the NWC, about 7 months ago.
“I was on a visit to Niger State and I decided to pay a courtesy call on the Governor and the Governor told me ‘Sir, we have about 12 local governments which are under the control of bandits, we don’t know how to conduct elections in those local governments and I went to the President and said we need more policemen and the President said ‘how can I give you more policemen when the Inspector General of Police and the Police Service Commission are in the court on who will recruit policemen.’ I cannot be that kind of President.”
He further said, “And that is where we are as at today, we cannot recruit policemen because the two agencies are in court, we have a president who cannot be heads of two agencies under control, his own heads of the department, not even ministers.
“I’m not going to be that kind of President because you and I Mr Chairman have worked in the same cabinet before.
“I’m here to inform you of my decision to run again. I urge you to provide the environment for the best candidate to emerge. Mr Chairman, I dare say I’m the best candidate,” he stated.