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Lies against Atiku by Buhari Presidency a sign of defeat –PDP

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Lies against Atiku by Buhari Presidency a sign of defeat –PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that several comments and personal attacks against its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is a sign that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is sensing defeat already ahead of the 2019 elections.

The PDP said that Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, as well as other officials of the Buhari Presidency have been dishing out deliberate lies against the character of Abubakar.

“Since the successful conduct of our presidential primary and the popular emergence of Atiku Abubakar, the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have become intimidated; gone into panic mode and ignobly resorted to trading on rumour and spurious allegations, having failed in their evil machination to scuttle our presidential primary ab initio,” Kola Ologbondiyan said.

Ologbondiyan, who is the opposition party’s National Publicity Secretary, stated this in a statement on Wednesday.

“The PDP is aware of how the unnerved and intimidated Buhari Presidency has unleashed its officials, spin doctors and hack writers with billions of naira, siphoned from our national treasury, to fabricate lies, spurious allegations and smear campaign against our Presidential candidate.

“While it is understandable that President Muhammadu Buhari is discomfited and afraid to face a popular candidate in any elections due to his incompetence, for which Nigerians earnestly seek his replacement, engaging in smear campaign, as a means of survival, is completely reprehensible and cowardly.

“President Buhari and the APC, in their desperation, should not attempt to confuse personal economic prosperity that comes from hard work, as in the case of Atiku Abubakar, with corrupt enrichment. That President Buhari failed in leading a successful personal economic life does not mean that others cannot succeed without being corrupt.

“Furthermore, unlike President Buhari, who has failed in managing both private and public enterprises; who also confessed his failure to successfully manage his own farm and has made no personal contribution to our national development, our Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is internationally known as a hard working, resourceful, versatile and successful private entrepreneur, a vast employer of labour; an ingenious citizen, who has made immeasurable contribution to our national development both in public and private lives.

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“It is therefore a heinous perversion for Lai Mohammed, who has earned himself a notoriety, to the extent Nigerians now replace his first name, ‘Lai’ with ‘lie’, to attempt to suggest that the choice of Atiku Abubakar is a return to era of corruption, whereas President Buhari is internationally reputed to be presiding over the most corrupt administration in the history of our nation,” Ologbondiyan added.

Meanwhile, Imo State governor and APC Governors Forum chairman, Rochas Okorocha, on Wednesday refuted claims that the ruling party was jittery over Atiku’s emergence.

Okorocha told State House correspondents, “I don’t know about talking tough, we can’t be jittery and history is there to speak, history is very important and it is there to speak so like I said we are not going to engage in this verbal war with anybody, we will be talking about issues. If we say look, you are not good, we tell you what we can do and we cannot do and what others cannot do.”

 

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