{"id":776416,"date":"2020-01-04T13:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/04\/we-should-be-concerned-with-building-our-party-not-election-atiku-tells-pdp\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T13:07:23","slug":"we-should-be-concerned-with-building-our-party-not-election-atiku-tells-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/04\/we-should-be-concerned-with-building-our-party-not-election-atiku-tells-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"We Should Be Concerned With Building Our Party, Not Election, Atiku Tells PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_670475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-670475\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-670475 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Atiku-Abubakar1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Atiku\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-670475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atiku Abubakar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has advised his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to concern itself with rebuilding the party and not 2023 election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via his Twitter handle on Saturday morning, the presidential candidate of the opposition party in the 2019 election said the discussion of elections shouldn\u2019t be now.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted: \u201cOur preoccupation at this point in the @OfficialPDPNig should not focus on elections, but on rebuilding and strengthening our party for the challenges ahead of us,\u201d Abubakar wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Atiku\u2019s Supporters Are After My Life Over 2023 Presidential Ticket: PDP BOT Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Walid Jibrin, chairman of the board of trustees (BoT) of the PDP, had raised an alarm that his life was under threat because he didn\u2019t Atiku as the party\u2019s presidential candidate for 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced that the opposition party would soon commence its search for a presidential candidate in the 2023 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Jibrin had said the candidate could be from any zone and revealed to journalists on Thursday in Kaduna, that he had received calls for not saying the party\u2019s presidential ticket would be zoned to the north-east.<\/p>\n<p>Jibrin said, \u201cI have received calls from some people threatening my life over my coming out not to mention that the presidency of this country be zoned to the north-east. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were saying that I am a traitor that I should have come out to say that it is only Atiku Abubakar because I said that Atiku was already overthrown by the supreme court. They said for that I should say Atiku is the man that I want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has advised his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to concern itself with rebuilding the party and not 2023 election. Speaking via his Twitter handle on Saturday morning, the presidential candidate of the opposition party in the 2019 election said the discussion of elections shouldn\u2019t be now. 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