National Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, has called on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to throw his hat in the ring for the 2019 presidential election.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with New Telegraph, Aniebonam said Atiku has the capacity to govern and redesign Nigeria if given the opportunity to steer the ship of state.
His words: “Honestly, the former vice president has the capacity to govern Nigeria. I look forward to seeing Atiku coming to head New Nigeria Peoples Party and we will support him with our experts’ opinion on how to redesign Nigeria, using the platform of the NNPP.
What Nigerians want now is a new Nigeria and you can only achieve that through a platform, which is a political platform with that name ‘New Nigeria,’ “Atiku should contest the 2019 presidency.
We are inviting Atiku to come and head the New Nigeria Peoples Party so that we will tell him how to restructure this country. We will tell him what should be done and we will get the presidency through what Donald Trump did in the United States.
Trump is not a magician; he knew what the Americans wanted and he took advantage of that. The person who should emerge president in 2019 should be somebody who has the capacity to address the problems of Nigeria.
“Atiku has the capacity and if he does that under the NNPP, fine, but if he does it on another platform, we cannot guarantee it.
You can see that there is a sought of revolution across the world looking at Brexit in Britain and what happened in United States with Trump’s victory. I think the next port of call is Nigeria and Atiku has the capacity, but it has to be through the New Nigeria Peoples Party. Every Nigerian is looking forward toward a new Nigeria.”
