The Bola Tinubu Campaign Organisation has described Atiku
Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as
“divider-in-chief”.
The PDP has been in turmoil since Atiku was elected as the
standard bearer of the major opposition party.
The rift deepened after Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers
state, was overlooked by Atiku in the selection of his running mate.
The crisis worsened on Tuesday as Wike’s allies jettisoned
campaign responsibilities, and insisted that Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national
chairman, must be removed.
Several meetings to resolve the acrimony in the party have
been to no avail.
In a statement on Friday, Bayo Onanuga, the Tinubu
campaign’s director of media and communication, said the “fratricidal war”
within the PDP “has undermined” any momentum Atiku hoped to build.
The statement added that Atiku is facing the “karma of his
inordinate ambition” for not heeding the zoning arrangement of his party.
“Let us pity Atiku, another shot at presidency is slipping
away. Once again, another bid for the presidency of our country by former Vice
President, Atiku Abubakar is slipping away. This is unravelling before our very
eyes even before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) blows the
whistle for the electioneering campaign. His party, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) is in disarray. The signs are just too ominous for the Waziri what
with the report by the Economic Intelligence Unit predicting another trashing
for him in the forthcoming polls,” the statement reads.
“After violating his party’s code for power rotation between
the north and south and grabbing the PDP ticket without a modicum of
sensibilities about our national ethos, Alhaji Atiku is now faced with the
karma of his inordinate ambition.
“The PDP has imploded in a battle of attrition, the result
of which is predictable. The ongoing fratricidal war where a faction of the
party being led by the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is engaging Atiku in a
fight to finish has undermined any momentum the PDP candidate had hoped to
build. With the further loss of confidence in PDP by its own members who can
not find any redeeming feature in the fast-disappearing party, it is crystal
clear that Atiku’s latest bid for the Nigeria’s top job has hit the rocks.
“A pillar of Atiku’s campaign is the claim of being a
unifier and nationalist. That bogus claim has now been discredited, even within
his party as the disaffected members cry for justice and inclusivity.
“Instead of the perennially running and perennially failing
candidate to offer them some sop, he has rebuffed them, pleading that he could
not grant their request for justice.
“Surely a man who cannot resolve a genuine dispute among his
party members, who cannot forge an entente among them, cannot be expected to
unify our country.
“Instead of being a
unifier, Atiku is now a divider-in-chief. His campaign on this score is heading
for a stillbirth, just as some of his programmes have been found to be nothing
new, as they are already being implemented by the All Progressives Congress
(APC) administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The former Vice President created the crisis for himself,
by pushing the fallacy that only a northern candidate can win the presidency
for his party, despite the open record that southerners, when they network with
their northern compatriots, can also win the election.
“Former leaders, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan demonstrated this in 1999, 2003 and 2011. As a campaign, we can only
pity former Vice President Atiku for the self-inflicted injury he invited unto
himself. Chinua Achebe, the very accomplished novelist in one of his classics,
Arrow of God, wrote that a man who brought ant-infested faggots into the
homestead should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.”
The Tinubu campaign organisation advised Atiku to “kiss his
ill-fated presidential bid goodbye”.
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