The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has lambasted the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to
focus on its frailties and staff of their affairs.
Tinubu in a statement by Director, Media and Publicity of
his Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, Friday mocked Atiku and PDP
over the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike’s revealing media chat.
APC said “Once again, another bid for the presidency of our
country by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar is slipping away. This is
unraveling before our very eyes even before the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) blows the whistle for electioneering campaign. His party, the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is in disarray. The signs are just too ominous
for the Waziri Adamawa with the report by the Economic Intelligence Unit
predicting another trashing for him in the forthcoming polls.
“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”.
Reacting through his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, Friday, Atiku
described Tinubu and APC as busy bodies.
The former Vice President described the APC state on issues
pertaining to developments within the PDP as a laughable work of an interloper.
He said instead for APC to focus on its credibility and
acceptability issues, they are poking their nose into PDP internal affairs.
The statement read in part, “Well, since the APC
Presidential Campaign Organization seems to have woken up from their state of
hibernation, it is good to remind them that there are pending questions about
the social and educational history of their candidate that Nigerians want
answers to.
“We shall be kind enough to remind the APC that when, in the
next few days, campaigns begin in earnest, Nigerians will require answers to
some weighty character questions about their candidate and, rather than expend
precious time on what is never their business, should use the remaining few
days judiciously.
“Secondly, whatever is happening in the PDP is a conversation
among leaders of the party and that, in itself, is a reflection of the PDP, as
a living and engaging political party. The conversation in the PDP is all about
consensus building, which in itself is a major ingredient for peace and unity.
“The PDP, as a truly democratic party, understands that
democracy is a lively concept because it allows for people to express their
opinions and, it is within that understanding that everyone becomes part of the
process.
“The same, of course, cannot be said of the APC where what
exists is at best graveyard peace. It is on record that in the seven years and
more that the APC has been in power and with the attendant hardship that the
party has foisted on the ordinary people of Nigeria, the candidate of the APC,
former governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu had not for one single time stood on the side
of the people.
“And, that is so for the obvious reason that the
presidential candidate of the APC considers his poorly conceived presidential
ambition more important than the adversity that his party has unleashed on a
vast majority of Nigerians. We wish to remind the APC that its presidential
candidate has to own the failures of the party in the last seven plus years. He
should also know that Nigerians will not reward their failure with nothing less
than a resounding loss in the election.
“Tinubu and the APC ma lu’le! It is important to let Tinubu
and his paid agents know that what obtains in the PDP is not the mundane
stoicism that the APC is known for.
“Indeed, the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku
Abubakar has established credibility before the masses of this country that he
is one patriot who can be counted on to stand by the side of the people – even
when the times are hard”.
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