Presidential candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the
inclusion of two billionaire businessmen, Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola in the
All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign.
Atiku said the move was an act of
desperation on the part of Buhari and the APC.
The former Vice President spoke
through one of his Presidential Campaign spokesperson, Kassim Afegbua.
According to Atiku, it would have
served Nigerians better if the businessmen were included in Buhari’s economic
management team to avail him their wealth of knowledge on how to create jobs.
Atiku said, “These people are
businessmen, not politicians. These are the kind of people Nigerians expect to
see in the economic management team because of what they have done for this
country.
“He (Buhari) is simply out to
blackmail them because by the time they fund his campaign, he will turn around
and call them corrupt businessmen.
“Nigerians can now see for
themselves what we have been talking about all this while and we call on them
to vote out this grossly incompetent administration, whose stock in trade is
blackmail of perceived enemies.”
Meanwhile, the Presidency,
through the Special Adviser to the President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi
Adesina, has clarified Dangote’s position in the list.
According to Adesina, Dangote not
being a card carrying member of the APC cannot be on its Presidential campaign
council.
In a terse statement last night,
Adesina said, “It has become imperative to further clarify the status of Alhaji
Aliko Dangote, named under the sub-head ADVISORY MEMBERS in the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council announced on Friday,
December 28, 2018.
“Africa’s richest man, not being
a card-carrying member of APC, cannot, and is not member of the PCC.
“He is also a member of the Peace
Committee, and thus cannot be in a partisan campaign council.”
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