The Presidential Candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said President Muhammadu
Buhari’s denial of the continued threats of the Boko Haram insurgency has made
the demand for mental test for all presidential candidates imperative.
Atiku, in a statement issued
yesterday by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, also faulted Buhari’s declaration at
the Uyo All Progressives Congress, APC, rally that he has fulfilled all his
election promises.
He said: “The most blatant insult
from the President was his assertion in Uyo that ‘we have defeated Boko Haram’.
‘’It was most insensitive of the
President to have said such on a day that foreign and domestic media reported
the entrapment of our gallant troops by Boko Haram/ISWAP in Baga, with as much
as 700 hundred reported missing.
“Even more indicting is the
statement from the US-based International Strategic Studies Association, which
revealed that the Boko Haram insurgency was lingering due to the massive
corruption around President Muhammadu Buhari.
‘’How would those soldiers feel,
how would their families feel, how would their colleagues in the barracks feel
when they are facing a life and death situation and their commander-in-chief is
impervious to reality?
“Faced with such delusions and
obvious denial of reality by President Buhari, it has become expedient to
revisit the demand by the Coalition of United Political Parties for all
Presidential candidates to submit themselves for a mental health test because clearly
someone has badly lost touch with happenings around him.
“We declare that Atiku Abubakar
is prepared to undergo such test and challenges President Muhammadu Buhari to
accept CUPP’s challenge.
“And, for the umpteenth time, we
call on President Muhammadu Buhari to come clean on the faceless people behind
Keystone Bank and Etisalat. Nigerians deserve to know how people who used to
beg for ¦ 2000 transport money, as revealed by Buhari’s right hand man, Buba
Galadima, are now suddenly wealthy enough to acquire multi billion dollar
investments.
“Finally, we cannot wait for the
Presidential Debate where Atiku Abubakar will talk about his plans to reduce
the unemployment rate from 23.1% under Buhari to single digits, because Atiku
means JOBS and Buhari means EXTREME POVERTY.”
While speaking on President
Buhari’s claim in Uyo that he has fulfilled all his election promises, Atiku
said: “Ironically, a day before the President made that statement, it was
revealed that the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty had increased
from 87 million to 90 million in just 4 months. Going by that sharp rate of
increase, the whole country will be in extreme poverty if Nigerians make the
mistake of re-electing Buhari.
“Except the President made a vow
to impoverish Nigerians, it is hard to see how he could have fulfilled his
promises with such pervasive poverty and hunger in the land.
“This is even as the Nigerian
Bureau of Statistics revealed a week to the President’s unfortunate statement
that unemployment had doubled from the 14% he met it in May 2015 to 23.1% in
December of 2018.”
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