Former Governor of Cross River State and Presidential candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Donald Duke has explained why the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will fail if elected president in 2019.
Speaking to newsmen on Thursday, Duke said the PDP baggage will not allow Atiku to perform effectively if he eventually wins the election. He explained that no matter how good a candidate is, he cannot perform on the platform of PDP.
“Even if I had emerged as the PDP presidential flag bearer, and win the election, the huge baggage the party carries will not allow me to do well.
“The corruption is huge. You need to be completely unshackled to perform amidst such obstacles without being pulled down.
“The PDP presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku, is like an elder brother to me. I have known him from when I was 12 years old. The APC is not completely left out of the baggage. Hence, the need for Nigerians to change the culture of PDP and APC.
“You can see that President Muhammadu Buhari, with his stern stand on corruption, is still finding it difficult to navigate smoothly because it is the same corrupt persons that we are still battling. They simply joined APC from PDP,” he said.
