“I am not going away” – Atiku speaks on contesting 2027 presidency

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for 2023, Atiku Abubakar, has stated that he will not be stepping down from active, partisan politics just yet.
Nonetheless, he made hints that the time had come for him to stop running for elective office and let the younger people take up the cause.

The hint was revealed by the former vice president on Monday during a press conference where he responded to the Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Bola Tinubu’s victory as the All Progressives Congress (APC) nominee on February 25, 2023.

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Atiku and the PDP filed an appeal, but it was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Thursday, October 26 for lack of merit. It is unclear if the PDP leader will run in the 2027 elections, by which time he would be 81 years old.

Atiku stated in his speech on Monday that although the fight to strengthen Nigeria’s political institutions and democracy will go on, the younger generation will now be in the forefront of it.

“This phase of our work is done for me and my party,” he declared. I will not, however, disappear. I will fight alongside other Nigerians to strengthen our democracy and rule of law as well as to bring about the kind of political and economic transformation that the nation need in order to realize its full potential for as long as I live. The younger generation of Nigerians, who have even greater stakes than my generation, ought to take the lead in that effort.