{"id":5041,"date":"2019-02-21T16:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:17:23","slug":"full-text-of-what-atiku-said-during-live-broadcast-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/full-text-of-what-atiku-said-during-live-broadcast-on-thursday","title":{"rendered":"Full text of what Atiku said during live broadcast on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar, the prresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday urged Nigerians to come out and vote for their future in Saturday\u2019s rescheduled elections.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku made the appeal in a live broadcast via his social media pages.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Atiku-blasts-Osinbajo-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Atiku-blasts-Osinbajo-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Atiku-blasts-Osinbajo-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Atiku-blasts-Osinbajo-1.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy message to you is simple, please come out and vote as this election is about your future and the future of our great nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know this Saturday we have the Presidential and National Assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason we have elections is to allow us to have our voices heard on how we have been governed for the last four and who will govern us for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn March 28, 2015, we the people of Nigeria went to the polling unit only with our PVCs, yet we were able to remove an incumbent President from office, that made me be a very proud Nigerian and a very Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be voting with mine on Saturday and I call on you all to please join me irrespective of who you will be voting for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod bless you and God, bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, a former vice-president of the country, will be up against the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, this Saturday, February 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar, the prresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday urged Nigerians to come out and vote for their future in Saturday\u2019s rescheduled elections. 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