Former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar says President Muhammadu Buhari would have ordered his arrest if he
had evidence of corruption against him.
In a statement issued on his behalf
by his campaign organisation, Abubakar said his emergence has thrown the camp
of Buhari into confusion.
He also dismissed the allegation
of the Buhari Campaign Organisation that he clinched the ticket of the
opposition party as a result of financial inducement.
Abubakar said while he came out
top in a keenly contested exercise, such could not be said of Buhari.
“We are not surprised that there
is confusion in the President’s camp. We expected that they would be thrown
into a catatonic state knowing that HE Atiku Abubabakr’s emergence
automatically means the coming end of their ignominious reign,” he said.
“That much was admitted by the
President’s former running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare when he praised the
emergence of HE Atiku as an ‘Eagle’ and ‘a cosmopolitan wazobia’ politician.
Obviously, Pastor Tunde Bakare has foreseen that the era of 97% versus 5% has come
to an end with the emergence of the pan Nigerian Atiku Abubakar.
“We ask how can the Buhari
Campaign Organisation disparage the PDP Primary that produced His Excellency,
Atiku Abubakar, when even the President’s own wife, Aisha Buhari, has condemned
the APC’s primary? Not only did Mrs Buhari condemn APC’s primaries, but she
also described them as ‘unfair’ and lacking in integrity. Who can know
President Buhari better than his wife.
“Eleven aspirants contested
against His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, during the Presidential primary of the
PDP. Every single one of them accepted his victory. President Buhari was the
only candidate cleared by the APC to contest its primary, yet, a coalition of 5
aspirants are challenging his victory, that alone tells Nigerians his emergence
is fraudulent.
“Nigerians know that Atiku
Abubakar is the most investigated politician in Nigeria and any smear by the
Buhari administration remains just that. With the vindictiveness of President
Buhari, he would have arrested HE Abubakar if he had been found wanting.
“However, to set the record
straight, we want to remind Nigerians that PDP’s primaries were genuine, free
and fair. Atiku Abubakar got 1,532 votes in a contest televised live to
millions of Nigerians. The All Progressives Congress’ primary, on the other
hand, was a study in dictatorship and corruption. The sole candidate, Muhammadu
Buhari, scored almost 15 million votes. How could that occur without rigging or
manufacturing of faceless voters?”
Abubakar said various acts of corruption
were being committed under the current administration, which he said caused
Transparency International to classify the country as more corrupt now than it
was three years ago.
He said the choice before
Nigerians was between a candidate who has provided over 50,000 jobs to people
in his personal capacity and the other under whom 11 million Nigerians have
lost their jobs.
“No wonder Transparency
International rated Nigeria as more corrupt today under Buhari than just three
years ago when the PDP was in power,” he said.
“The scandals are too numerous,
including the $25 billion NNPC contracts awarded without due process, the
several padded budgets, the $41 million Ikoyi Apartment scandal, the recall,
reinstatement and double promotion of pension thief and Buhari financier,
Abdulrasheed Maina, the N200 million grass cutter scandal, and many others too
numerous to mention.
“The choice before Nigerians in
2019 is a simple one. Nigerians have a choice of electing a lively candidate
with a record of providing 50,000 jobs to Nigerians in his private capacity
versus the lifelessness (apologies to President Donald Trump) of a candidate
under whom Nigeria lost 11 million jobs and became the world headquarters for
extreme poverty.
“Nigerians have a choice of a man
who will provide an efficient and business-friendly solution to the herdsmen
crisis and a man whose government said ‘giving land for cattle ranching is
better than death.”
“It is very obvious that faced
with such a choice that Nigerians would definitely vote for the man who will
Get Nigeria Working Again, hence we are not surprised by this desperate
statement from the Buhari administration that is so shameless that they made a
man implicated in framing a man of God on spurious charges as their spokesman.
If he can lie against a man of God, should Nigerians believe anything he says
about the PDP and its candidate?”
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Atiku has proved that PMB is just arresting corrupt loiters. A round of applause to pmb.
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