The Oduduwa Vanguard has replied
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over
his attack on President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government’s for donating
$500,000 to Guinea Bissau.
The group asked Atiku to go for
crash course on economy before exhibiting his ignorance.
Atiku had slammed the federal
government’s $500,000 donation to Guinea Bissau, describing the gesture as
wasteful.
According to him, it was one of
the ways the President Muhammadu Buhari administration brought a once thriving
economy to its knees.
Oduduwa Vanguard described
Atiku’s comment to a strategic act as irresponsible on many levels.
Aare Kunle Adewole, President of
the group said Atiku was not qualified to be entrusted with making decisions
for 200 million Nigerians because he lacked patient to fully understand issues
before reacting.
According to Kolawale, “We wonder
how an Atiku that can donate lavishly to buy cars for women will find it wrong
that Nigeria wants to play its big brother role to other Africa nations. This
is double standard at play at best and we advise the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari not to join Atiku at
the level to which he has sunken. It will amount to wrestling a hog in the mud.
“A right thinking person that
looks beyond the meanness of satiating only his own avarice would have seen
that there are gains to Nigeria when the donations to Guinea Bissau are well
exploited.
“For one, a revived Guinea Bissau
or any other African country provides fertile grounds for Nigerians to go
exploit since we fortunately have enterprising Nigerians that have made marks
for themselves in their places of sojourn. We believe that helping other nations
to stay afloat when we can is a strategic way of ensuring that our country’s
huge population is able to spread outwards to these other places and earn their
keep. An intelligent person will realize that remittances from the funds
repatriated by such Nigerians will go a long way to helping the economy back
home.
“It is understandable that Atiku
is projecting his own values unto others because this kind of donation would
have found its way into private pockets between 1999 and 2007 when he was vice
president. The absence of such slush fund must have been responsible for his
recent gimmick of under declaring his income so that he can keep back some more
money from tax avoidance.
“But we ask for once that he
should believe in the capacity of other people to be upright where he is
crooked. Such realistic perception of others would have made him to realize
that the money promised to Guinea Bissau is not the type wasted on sponsoring
team members to Dubai or for paying a foreign agent to procure election hacking
services from Russia.”
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