ATIKU: APC sustains attack on Obasanjo, questions his integrity

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), seems not ready to let former President Olusegun Obasanjo be for endorsing the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, for president in 2019.

The party said that Obasanjo has lost his “integrity and reliability” by throwing his wait behind Atiku, the same person he had in the past criticised and described as being corrupt.

Atiku was Vice President to Obasanjo when the latter was in power between 1999 to 2007. They both had issues while still in power and continued as political enemies until recently when Obasanjo forgave and endorsed Atiku to be Nigeria’s president in 2019.

The ruling APC and the Presidency had since that development continued to attack Obasanjo, who also had in 2015 rejected his own party, PDP’s presidential candidate, who was then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, but instead endorsed Muhammadu Buhari.

In a fresh attack by its deputy national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, APC said Obasanjo’s new alliance with his former vice will fall like a pack of cards before President Buhari in the 2019 general election.

It said in a statement Nabena issued on Sunday in Abuja, that “Throughout their second tenure in office, (2003-2007) and until last fortnight, former President Olusegun Obasanjo had described Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as a corrupt, disloyal and unpatriotic leader who was not fit and proper to handle the mantle of Nigerian leadership.

“Only recently, Obasanjo vowed that God would not forgive him if he supported the Presidential aspiration of Atiku as ‘it would amount to handing Nigeria over to sharks and looters.

“It is this tendency towards indecision, insincerity, double talk and deception that has made Nigeria ridiculed in the eyes of the international community.

“A statesman is known for his principles and his statements are based on the strength of his convictions.

“When a supposed national leader makes declarations that are subject to change at any time based on his mood, such a leader loses his integrity and reliability.”

The APC went further to dub both the presidential candidate of the PDP and his vice in the 2019 election, Peter Obi, as double-faced and pretentious.

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He said, “Nigerians cannot be deceived, we have seen them all – Presidential Library, Bells and American University of Nigeria, Breweries and Shopping Malls, all established with largely public funds but privately owned by public officers,” he added.

Nabena said that as a former military head of state and Petroleum minister, Buhari made no attempt to acquire an oil well, private jet or estates in Nigeria and abroad.

“Muhammadu Buhari is definitely different from the double-faced candidates seeking election.”

 

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