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Atiku has shown he’s anti-democrat – Okechukwu

Ezechukwu Malachy by Ezechukwu Malachy
October 4, 2025
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as showing that he belongs to the class of anti-democrats.

Mr Okechukwu stated this while speaking to journalists on the recent BBC Hausa Service interview where Atiku stated that “if a younger candidate emerges through a competitive primary, he would support and mentor such a person.”

Okechukwu argued that by elevating the so-called “competitive primary” above Nigeria’s cherished rotation and zoning convention — the delicate unity glue that has sustained the Fourth Republic since 1999 — Atiku undermines a fundamental pillar of the nation’s democracy.

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He recalled that Atiku himself has been a direct beneficiary of zoning and rotation, but paradoxically led the campaign against it in 2014, and won the PDP primary where no southern presidential aspirant contested.

According to the former Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VoN), discarding zoning in favour of “dollarised primary” dressed up as democracy represents “the height of anti-democratic conduct.

“Among the cardinal tenets of democracy, the first is the unity of our dear fatherland, and the second is the conduct of free and fair elections. 

“Atiku is now waving expensive, monetised, and exclusionary primaries as his banner of democracy, while downplaying the very convention that guarantees equity, inclusion, and stability in our plural society,” he said.

Okechukwu added that Atiku’s pronouncement confirms long-standing fears that he seeks power not to strengthen democratic institutions, but to erode the very principles that built the Nigerian project.

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