{"id":25971,"date":"2020-06-08T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:54:54","slug":"atiku-will-contest-2023-presidency-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/atiku-will-contest-2023-presidency-son","title":{"rendered":"Atiku will contest 2023 presidency \u2013 Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will contest the 2023 presidency unfailingly, his son, Adamu has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu spoke while presenting the scorecard as Commissioner for Works and Energy in Adamawa State to mark the first anniversary of Adamawa Governor Ahmadu Finitiri.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cPersonally, I don\u2019t see anything wrong with my father contesting for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2023, my father will be aspiring to the number one office in the land because he has been an astute, strategic, master politician for almost four decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said his coming late into politics was as a result of the advice from his father, urging him to spend more time in the private sector to gain enough experience, which would be crucial for him in public life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am basically here to serve my people; if I am called by the people back home to run for the Senate, I don\u2019t see anything wrong with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will contest the 2023 presidency unfailingly, his son, Adamu has confirmed. Adamu spoke while presenting the scorecard as Commissioner for Works and Energy in Adamawa State to mark the first anniversary of Adamawa Governor Ahmadu Finitiri. He said: \u201cPersonally, I don\u2019t see anything wrong with my father contesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[316,173,65],"class_list":["post-25971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-atiku","tag-parties","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atiku will contest 2023 presidency \u2013 Son - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/atiku-will-contest-2023-presidency-son\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku will contest 2023 presidency \u2013 Son\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will contest the 2023 presidency unfailingly, his son, Adamu has confirmed. 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