The Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the brutal violence that claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians during last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the country.
Atiku in a press statement signed by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe restated that no one deserved to die over a process to elect their leaders.
Atiku who was reacting to the reports of violence in some parts of the country, reiterated his previous position that no politician’s ambition was worth the blood of any innocent Nigerian.
According to him, no politician should celebrate his political gains if they are written in the blood of innocent Nigerians.
He said those innocent Nigerians that died won’t be forgotten for their sacrifices, adding that political violence which is being aided and abetted by desperate politicians, was giving the nation’s democracy a bad name.
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The PDP presidential candidate said those politicians who climb the ladder of human lives to attain power have brought democracy into disrepute, and that it was high time the Nigerian youth opened their eyes to resist being used to kill and maim.
He explained that any politician who is sincerely interested in the progress of the youth shouldn’t be using them as cannon fodder for his or her ambition. He stressed that the youth deserved jobs and not death.
Atiku stressed that the real enemies worth fighting were poverty, unemployment, hunger, nepotism, division, despair and uncertain future.
He therefore condoled with the families and friends of those innocent Nigerians that tragically lost their lives.
