Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar at the first Jumu’at prayer in the 2018 Ramadan season with the Yola Ummah at the Yola Central Mosque, Yola, Adamawa State.

Atiku stated this in Jalingo, Taraba State capital  on Wednesday while he was in the state to solicit the support of PDP members.

He said Nigeria needed restructuring at almost all levels, stressing that it  takes experience of Nigerians like him to take the country to the desired levels. He said: “I have come to request for your support so that I will be able to emerge as the PDP presidential flag bearer for the 2019 general election.  Taraba is home for me, I believe if I succeed, you will also succeed.” Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State in his response, said Nigerians were desperately seeking the type of change that will stop daily killings of people and destruction of property across the nation. Ishaku, who received the former vice president at Government House, Jalingo, said it had become necessary to look for a credible candidate in PDP who will defeat other presidential candidates in the 2019 general election and also deliver Nigeria from its current situation. He said Nigerians had turned their attention to PDP as a solution to give them a credible candidate that will come with high profile ideas that would stop the ongoing daily killings and maintain the country’s unity. “You can’t say your administration is fighting corruption while people are being killed on a daily basis.  You can’t lock up people in prisons on the basis that they stole money while you keep mute to killings of human beings, that is also corruption. “Your Excellency, the former vice president, we are very happy that you have come back to PDP, some of us kept wondering how can you build a beautiful house such as PDP and you abandoned to join a mud house that can fall at any time. “If you check the records, you will discover that across the country, it’s only PDP governors that are working, PDP is the only nationalistic party in Nigeria. “Just recently, they listed seven of us as governors that they must unseat, even if it com es to use of the power gun and rigging, but for me I told them they are not God.  Honestly, we need a new turn around in Nigeria and PDP is the only political party with such composition. “We will do our best to give you the necessary support to succeed because it’s our belief that if you are there, our needs will be granted,” the governor said. Ishaku, while condemning the killings across Nigeria, stated that he had no powers on a single military troop as the chief security officer of the state. He called on the former vice president to consider restructuring of the security apparatus of the country, if Nigerians gave him the mandate.