Eunice Atuejide, the National Chairman and Presidential Candidate of the National Interest Party (NIP) has explained why she withdrew from the 2019 presidential race.
In a statement credited to her, she stated that her race for the 2019 presidential election ended on Saturday, February 16, adding that anything other than that wasn’t part of her agenda.
Emphasising that she had no regrets in pulling out of the race, Atuejide, said she had learnt what the entire world could teach her from contesting for the Presidency in Nigeria.
Being an overly idealistic young woman, Atuejide’s determination to save her country from demise overnight was one admired by a lot of people.
“The experience gotten so far is a compulsory element in my political development and exposure to the electioneering processes in Nigeria, so I am grateful,” she was quoted to have said.
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She released a statement today saying, ‘when I set out on this journey in 2016, I promised myself one thing – to always put Nigeria first! I invested so much into bringing together all the alternative candidates and when that failed, I invested even more into my race for the Presidency’.
I pursued my bid for the Presidency like my life depended on becoming the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2019 and I have no regrets whatsoever.
Indeed, no institution in the entire world could teach me the things I learned racing for the Presidency in Nigeria in 2018/2019, particularly as I started out being an overly idealistic young woman determined to save her country from demise overnight. The experience so far is a compulsory element in my political development and exposure to the electioneering processes in Nigeria, so I am grateful.
My race for the Presidency was programmed to end on 16th February 2019, and it ended on that day. Therefore, the Presidential Election proposed to hold on 23rd February 2019 due to the last minute postponement on the part of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not involve me.
In fact, that race is only between the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Therefore, every well meaning Nigerian particularly those whose party logos are on the ballot sheets should pick a side. Whatever we do on Saturday 23rd February, we will be voting either Atiku or Buhari i.e. either PDP or APC for the 2019 Presidency.
So my people, having committed to always put Nigeria first, having gotten to know most of the candidates vying for the Presidency in 2019 one on one, having investigated most of them independently, and having seriously considered the inherent dangers in allowing the incompetence of President Buhari to continue, I choose to fight for the benefit of every Nigerian on the side of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
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