President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public
Communication, Sunday Dare, has said Nigerians demand to know the report card
of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku
Abubakar.
Dare made the remark while criticizing Atiku for hiring a
United States US) lobbyist with $1.2 million, in preparation for the 2027
elections.
In a statement he signed, Dare said the former vice
president can’t take Nigeria down the path of self-destruction.
The statement reads partly: “Worse still, for a man who
presumes to offer leadership to Africa’s most populous nation, his recent
resort to grievance offshoring, outsourcing political warfare to Washington and
reportedly paying $1.2 million to an American lobbying firm to peddle petitions
against a sitting Nigerian President, stands as an affront to Nigeria’s
sovereignty and a vote of no confidence in its democratic institutions.
“It is also a stinging slight, an implicit condescension
directed at generations of Nigerian journalists, policy analysts, academics,
and public intellectuals who have spent decades analysing, critiquing, and
carrying the burden of the nation’s democratic evolution.
“The Atiku Abubakar of today cuts a pitiable figure, a
grotesque portrait of what a politician becomes when ambition overwhelms
judgment and every political faculty becomes programmed for self-destruction.
“No, Atiku cannot take Nigeria down that path with him. He
must travel it alone. But first, Nigerians deserve Atiku Abubakar’s report
card. Charity, they say, begins at home, not in Washington.
“Nigerians deserve to know whether the Atiku Abubakar who
has long presented himself as a democrat is, in reality, a politician of many
colours. He has erected for himself a throne built simultaneously on sand and
bayonets. It is time to explode the bayonets.”
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