Former Vice President and presidential hopeful on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will tomorrow Tuesday June 19, 2018, resume his visit to states controlled by the PDP, in continuation of his nationwide consultation with leaders and stakeholders of the PDP, towards the actualization of his 2019 presidential ambition.
The visit will take him to Bayelsa and Rivers States in the South South geopolitical zone, where he will be guest of Governors Henry Seriake Dickson and Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, respectively.
While the former vice president will meet frontiersmen of the PDP and hold consultative meetings in Bayelsa State in the course of his two-day visit on Tuesday and Wednesday, he is expected to commission projects executed by the Wike-led administration in Rivers State, on Wednesday June 20 and Thursday June 21.
Recall that in January 2018, Atiku had commenced a series of visits to states under the leadership of the PDP, with a visit to Ekiti State. Thereafter, he was in Rivers State in March; Akwa Ibom and Cross River States in May, as guest of Governors Wike, Udom Emmanuel and Ben Ayade, respectively, before the commencement of the Ramadan fast.
Atiku yesterday returned from a month-long visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, UAE, where he observed the Ramadan fast and participated in the lesser hajj.
Other PDP states scheduled to be visited by the former Vice President include: Delta, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Gombe and Taraba States.
