Don’t sell your vote, Atiku’s wife tells Edo women

At a town hall meeting with women with women drawn from the three senatorial districts of the state, she advised them not to sell their vote.

Mrs Abubakar told the gaily dressed women who numbered in their thousands that her husband, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP  will tackle the issues of insecurity, healthcare and economics currently bedevilling the nation if he wins the February 16 election.

Earlier in the month, Mrs Abubakar was in Uromi to drum support for her husband ahead of next month presidential poll.

Speaking at the meeting which has its theme: “Let’s talk”, she said that for Edo people, she has inquired, researched and that was fully aware that they have issues with security, healthcare and Economic just like in other parts of the country.

She said: “To remedy this, we need to vote for the right candidate and who is the right candidate? Atiku Abubakar. So it brings me to the reason why we are here today. It is a few days to the elections.”

Mrs Atiku said for Nigerians to put an end to the myriad problems confronting the nation, they should vote her husband and should not sell their votes.

While encouraging Nigerians to turnout in their large numbers to vote,  said democracy being a leveller gives room for both the rich and the poor in the society to decides who governs them adding that based on its importance, voting apartheid must be discouraged in order to have a better society and a better country.

She told the women which included Mrs. Josephine Anenih, the former PDP national Woman leader and the wife of Chief Anthony Anenih, the former, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the PDP that democracy is a leveller, noting that the rich have one vote just like the poor but lamented that a huge segment of the society do not vote.

She wailed: “They do not come out to vote for one reason or the other. But you know one thing, the people that go to vote are the youths and the women.

“Findings tell us that the highest votes come from 18-35 years old and so, it is important that will cultivate these votes and that is why the Atiku/Obi incoming government has promised a certain percentage for the youths and the women.

“If we decide we are not going to vote, we are wasting our right, is that not?

“What happens then? It means that will allowed our rights to be trampled on by whosoever that is in government”, he said.

Mrs Abubakar advised the women not to be deceived by name callings targeted to smear the image of her husband who she insisted meant well for the average Nigerian.