Another Woman Withdraws From Nigeria’s Presidential Race

With just about two days left to the rescheduled Nigerian elections, the Presidential candidate of the National Interest Party, NIP, Eunice Atuejide, has officially withdrawn from the race.

This came barely twenty eight days, when the former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili made her own exist announcement from the race.

Disclosing this in a statement, Atuejide stated that she stepped down from the election because her race for the presidency was programmed to end on February 16 “and it did.”

However, Atuejide, in the same statement obtained by PremiumTimes, said that she would support the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar because of his choice of VP.

“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.”

After bowing from the race, she, however, declared her support for Atiku.

I make bold to state unequivocally that I stand with Atiku under the PDP this time.

Atuejide is now the second woman to bow out of the race in less than a month time.

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