The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign council has
criticised Phrank Shaibu, aide to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), over his recent comment criticising Bola Tinubu.
Bayo Onanuga, director of media and publicity of the APC
campaign council, in a statement on Sunday, said the comment by Shaibu shows
the PDP camp is in fear.
Onanuga was reacting to a recent statement by Shaibu, in
which the latter said Tinubu, standard bearer of the APC, will do well not to
compare himself to Warren Buffet, one of the world’s richest persons.
In a recent interview with BBC, Tinubu was asked about the
source of his wealth, and he responded by saying that he inherited real estate
and made investments like Buffet.
Shaibu faulted the claim, saying the former governor’s
position on inheriting family wealth is questionable.
“How did Tinubu, whose family was too poor to send him to
school despite a free education policy at the time, inherit properties from the
same family? This is obvious balderdash,” Shuaibu had said.
Reacting, Onanuga said the PDP’s desperation is making the
party “resort to character assassination and innuendoes”.
“Our attention has
been drawn to a statement by one Phrank Shaibu, an Atiku Abubakar special media
assistant, whose speciality appears to be muckraking,” the statement reads.
“In another puerile move, Shuaibu challenged our candidate
to give his full name and went on a journey of fantasy about his early
education and parentage, matters already thrown into the dustbin decades ago.
“We were not surprised that the desperate Atiku camp, faced
with mounting setbacks in its campaign, will engage in another round of
mudslinging, after it failed to make any capital over its amplified allegation
of drug dealing against our candidate.
“This latest allegation, we must say is another attempt at
shadow boxing.
“It is unfortunate
that the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have chosen to
revive a dead allegation, knowing that this election is again slipping away.
“We however sympathise with Atiku and his mudslinging
agents. We know why they are lashing on every straw available. They are seized
with fear that the election is once again lost.
“The Constitution of the Republic is very clear on the
rights of a citizen to contest for president. Our candidate has fulfilled those
conditions. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the impartial
umpire, has affirmed that he is qualified to run.
“But the PDP and Atiku are utterly confused and in serious
disarray and running round in circles like a barber’s chair looking for what is
not lost.
“Yet like a fly that
insists on being buried with the corpse, the media handlers of the PDP prefer
to flog a dead horse.
“PDP should wait for its day of judgment rather than engage
in this obscurantist, diversionary game, a game that will be determined by the
Nigerian masses.”
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