Atiku woos Obasanjo as he becomes PDP's presidential candidate

Few minutes after his emergence as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former vice president Atiku Abubakar has praised former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Atiku, while delivering his acceptance speech after he was officially declared winner of the primary with 1,532 votes to Aminu Tambuwal's 693, Atiku thanked former President Olusegun Obasanjo for picking him as his vice president in 1999.

He said without Obasanjo picking him in 1999, he could never have become the PDP presidential candidate today. 

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