The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the 2023 election’s, Atiku Abubakar confessed being a student under the tutelage of Late Chief Solomon Lar, the first National Chairman of the PDP in 1998.
While speaking at the public presentation of Chronicles of the Rainbow (the post-humous autobiography of the Late Chief), the Vice-presidential candidate stated that he was an intimate student of the Late Chief Lar to the glory of the late former national chairman of the party who made the party one of the oldest party in Nigeria.
The presidential candidate said, “I am standing in dual capacity here today; as Atiku Abubakar, a very close and intimate student of late Chief Solomon Lar, I will say, and secondly, representing the entire family, the Peoples Democratic Party, he helped found, and also the first chairman of that party.
The presidential candidate also announced a donation of N100 million at the event as the events and activities. The public presentation is part of the events and activities slated ahead of the 2023 general election.
Those in attendance were the National Chairman of the party, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu; wife of the presidential candidate, Hajia Titi Abubakar; former President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki; other national party officials, National Assembly members, former governors, among others.