By Baba Yusuf
Abuja
A multi-national group, Youth for Better Nigeria (YBN), clamouring for the actualisation of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Dr. Ngozi Okonji-Iweala presidential ticket in 2019, has emerged.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abuja, the Dean of the group, Ikemba Oscar Ugo, said “presidency being the most important office in the land should be occupied by the best brains adjudged to be articulate, mentally alert, technology driven and of sound mind with resourceful and good business acumen.”
He said the group “has promptly identified these qualities in Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who, over the years, has been the bastion of democracy by singularly truncating the third term scheme of erstwhile president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.”
“Never before in the anal of this nation has Nigeria been this divided and it is only Atiku Abubakar who, as vice-president, was ambassador of conflict resolution that is capable of bringing us back together to live in peace and harmony amongst each other.”
Ugo, a renowned publisher, astute politician and secretary-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in The Diaspora, said the process of choosing Atiku Abubakar as preferred presidential candidate to run with Dr. Ngozi Okonji-Iweala was very detailed and rigorous, thereby calling on Nigerian youths to move en masse in support of Atiku candidature in order to change the fortune of this great nation for good.
He said the former vice-president was the only politician with a very detailed blueprint of how to get the nation on the path of recovery and growth.
“Atiku’s 2014 blueprint details what he intends to do when it comes to security, education, job creation, healthcare, economic transformation, wealth creation, foreign policy, our Diaspora, infrastructure, environment, creating equal opportunities for all and corruption.
“The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is a co-owner of a global conglomerate that was built from scratch and today is worth billions of dollars. We want a man like him that has built a profitable multi-billion dollar business as the President of Nigeria, who will be able to grow our revenues exponentially with his experience,” he said.
He said the former vice-president “is no doubt the largest private employer of labour in Nigeria today,” adding that he had created over 50,000 direct jobs and hundreds of thousands of indirect jobs.
