The presidential candidate of the National Interest Party, NIP, Eunice Atuejide, has withdrawn from the rescheduled presidential election, pledging her support for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Atuejide, who is a lawyer, said she withdrew from the election because her race for the presidency was programmed to end on February 16 adding, “and it did.”
“Therefore, the Presidential Election proposed to hold on 23rd February 2019 due to the last-minute postponement by INEC does not involve me,” she said stated.
Mrs Atuejide, the founder and chairperson of the NIP said the race was now between the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari who is seeking re-election and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
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She said she was now committed to supporting Atiku whom she considers a better candidate.
Recall that Mrs Atuejide had last month declared President Buhari mentally and physically unfit to continue in office, saying she had commenced legal action to stop him.
She said further in the statement: “I choose to fight for the benefit of every Nigerian on the side of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. I cannot defend PDP for giving us bad leadership from 1999 to 2015, yet I cannot help but blame the APC for doing a much worse job from 2015 to 2019.
“Plus, whether we call them PDP, APC, PPA, ANN, YPP, or NIP, we are all the same people moving from one political platform to the other in search of a place to speak out and be heard.
“To my mind, the political party platform is not the real issue nonetheless, it’s either Alhaji Atiku Abubakar under the PDP or President Buhari under the APC this time.
“I make bold to state unequivocally that I stand with Atiku under the PDP this time.”
