Eunice Atuejide, the presidential candidate of the National Interest Party (NIP), has pulled out of the race and thrown her support behind the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
She disclosed this in a Wednesday statement.
Atuejide disclosed that her presidential ambition was programmed to end on “February 16”, the original date fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the presidential election.
Recall that INEC said it shifted the date of the presidential and national assembly elections from February 16 to February 23 due to challenges with logistics.
Atuejide said she decided to support Atiku because of his choice of former Anambra governor, Peter Obi as his running mate.
The statement published by Premium Times read, “I choose to fight for the benefit of every Nigerian on the side of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. I cannot defend PDP for giving us bad leadership from 1999 to 2015, yet I cannot help but blame the APC for doing a much worse job from 2015 to 2019.
“Plus, whether we call them PDP, APC, PPA, ANN, YPP, or NIP, we are all the same people moving from one political platform to the other in search of a place to speak out and be heard.
“To my mind, the political party platform is not the real issue nonetheless, it’s either Alhaji Atiku Abubakar under the PDP or President Buhari under the APC this time.
“I make bold to state unequivocally that I stand with Atiku under the PDP this time.
“Mr Abubakar picked an amazing VP. In fact, even though I have never met or spoken to Peter Obi, it is thanks to him that I am today the Founder and National Chairman of a youth-led, digitally organised political party (NIP). His exemplary leadership as Governor of Anambra State led me and several of my team members to politics.”
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