Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed optimism of clinching the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 elections.
Atiku disclosed this on Saturday, after meeting behind closed door with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the latter’s residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
While fielding questions from journalists, Atiku, who was the vice president in Obasanjo’s administration between 1999 and 2007, said: “Have I ever failed to get a ticket? I’m confident that I will still get it.”
The Presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 polls said his reason for the visit to Obasanjo that lasted for about an hour, said he was in Abeokuta as part of his usual visit to his former boss.
Asked for his reaction to the call for the emergence of younger presidential candidates, Atiku responded, “Let the youths compete now. It is a competition. It is democracy.”
Atiku later proceeded to the palace of the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, in Ake, Abeokuta, where he recalled his days in Ogun as a trained Customs Officer.
Although Atiku did not disclose his political intentions at the palace though, the traditional ruler prayed that God would grant him his heart’s desires.