You’ve been contesting for President for 31 years, you need to step down – Bode George advises Atiku – Crime Channels

You’ve been contesting for President for 31 years, you need to step down – Bode George advises Atiku

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has advised Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, not to run in the next presidential race.

George, reflecting on Atiku’s unsuccessful attempts at the presidency since 1993, urged him to step aside and act as an elder statesman by leaving the presidential contest to others.

He urged Atiku who would be 81 by 2027, to end his 31-year-long bid to be President and assume the position of an elder for posterity sake.

George said this while addressing newsmen in Ikoyi, on Thursday, November 21.

He said: “My advice to Atiku is this, you will be 81 years old in 2027, and you have been contesting for presidency since 1993. This is the time for you to calm down and act like an elder. I appeal to you in the name of the Almighty Allah that you serve to take it easy and leave everything to posterity.”