A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has revealed the biggest political error the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, made while he was vice president.
Okechukwu said Atiku’s biggest political error was allowing former President Olusegun Obasanjo to go for a second term.
Atiku, who was Obasanjo’s deputy, was nursing a presidential ambition in the 2003 election but eventually dropped the plan to allow Obasanjo to have another term in office.
Speaking with journalists on Sunday, Okechukwu listed some of the political errors Atiku has made in his pursuit of the presidency.
Okechukwu said, “Atiku’s third unforced political error appeared to mirror his first in 2003, when he hurried into a presidential ambition rather than exercising patience in the established political tradition of the Fulani I know, by allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to complete his constitutionally permitted second term.
“The second unforced error was when His Excellency breached Section 7 of the PDP Constitution and the subsisting rotation convention between North and South in 2023.”
He maintained that the unfolding ADC crisis offers another reminder that political leadership requires patience and strategic engagement, as “political strategy is not merely about assemblage of political team; but also about timing, obedience to the rule of law and conventions cum conflict management”.