Former presidential spokesman,
Reuben Abati has recalled that he warned Nigerians to avoid President Buhari
and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In his latest article ‘Buhari:
Between yesterday and tomorrow’, Abati said he was sure Buhari was driving a
“One Chance” bus, and trying to lure unsuspecting Nigerians to certain despair.
“I wrote an article shortly after
the postponement of the 2015 Presidential elections”, he said.
“The piece, titled ‘Buhari’s One
Chance Campaign’ never got published. One of my colleagues to whom I showed it
advised against its publication. His point was that we should remain
professional and not get involved in partisan politics”, he disclosed.
In the excerpts, Abati noted that
Buhari was unelectable in 2003, 2007, 2011, and he was even far more
unelectable in 2015.
“In his previous failed attempts,
he was at least his own candidate, but this time, he is at best some other
people’s Special Purpose Vehicle; that is why he comes across more in this
campaign like a mannequin under the control of seen and unseen masters with
hidden agenda”, he wrote.
“Nobody should seek the
Presidency of Nigeria as an SPV. I argue that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, apparently
the owner of the APC, wants a Buhari Presidency because he imagines it will
transform him, not Professor Yemi Osinbajo, not anyone else, into the most influential
political figure in Yorubaland.
“The “treacherous” Rotimi Amaechi
is busy dancing up and down because for him, a Buhari Presidency will enable
him settle scores, with his imaginary enemies.
“Festus Odimegwu, who was booted
out as Chairman of the National Population Commission for making racist
comments about Nigerians of Northern extraction wrote a Buhari endorsement
article recently, it was actually a masked revenge piece.
“They will all be disappointed.
And if General Buhari wants to be President, he needs to come across as his own
man.
“President Jonathan is his own
man. All the self-proclaimed, would-have-been Godfathers to his presidency have
on their own committed political suicide. He is tested, healthy, strong,
focused and committed.
“He has campaigned on the basis
of his record of achievements and the phenomenally positive transformation that
Nigeria has witnessed under his watch in the past four years: the revived
railways sector, the strengthened education sector, greater emphasis on youth,
women empowerment and inclusive governance, a robust, economy, massive job
creation, expansion of the space for human freedoms, and a purposeful, engaging
campaign for a second term.
“In comparison, all I see on the
Buhari side, is a lot of mean tactics, hate-driven propaganda, shallow
costuming, third-party outsourcing of leadership, and manifold deception. Their
attraction is that of a “One Chance” bus, not concrete vision, not change or
progress, not leadership.”
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