The Centre for Social Justice,
Equity and Transparency (CESJET), has berated the Presidential Candidate of
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, for attempting to taint the
person and office of the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai.
Atiku had listed Buratai among 30
persons he claimed were corrupt and working for President Muhammadu Buhari.
Reacting, the centre said it was
wrong for Atiku to drag the Army Chief into partisan politics.
Osaloni Gbemisola Osadua Esq, the
Executive Director, while addressing a press conference on Tuesday, warned the
PDP presidential flagbearer against peddling rumours that could cause injury to
the integrity of others.
He said, “The pressure he is
under, from political barometric as of today, is beyond the realization that he
is set to lose the presidential election when it holds in a few days from now,
the pressure is coming from the appreciation that the result of the polls will
permanently and conclusively retire him from politics.
“Rather than heralding a
befitting end to an illustrious political career, this damning retirement would
demystify Atiku Abubakar’s in the annals of Nigeria’s political history.
The PDP presidential candidate,
in fairness to him having not been ever arraigned talk less of being convicted,
goes around with the burden of corruption, heavy enough for himself to have
acknowledged that allegations of corruption is the heaviest burden he has to
carry in his failed quest to rule Nigeria.
“Even though he has now embarked
on a revisionism, Atiku Abubakar’s former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, when
he has prime contact with the PDP current candidate described him as the most
corrupt Nigerian there was. We sympathize with him that he has to go around
with this kind of tarnish.
“But it beats the imagination
that this same Atiku Abubakar, irrespective of how desperate he has become in
his bid to fend off an enforced retirement, is now wildly accusing other
upstanding Nigerians of corruption. Our initial thought was that overzealous
aides went beyond their briefs to make such accusations on behalf of Atiku
Abubakar but we have since learnt that he is in on the game after waiting a
considerable time without him walking back the release of the list by one
Phrank Shaibu, who is said to be his Special Assistant on Public
Communications.
“With the names that made Atiku’s
list of corrupt persons connected to President Muhammadu Buhari, even the
electorates that will cast the losing votes for him should at this point begin
to question the extent to which their choice candidate has succumbed to
psychosis. The list confirmed that Atiku Abubakar’s desperation no longer has
much to do about winning but is now the manifestation of a man that has become
embittered by the prospect of losing to the extent that he maniacally wants to
drag down everyone with him.
“First, the list went on to name
the likes of Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF) and Ayodele Oke, the suspended Director-General of the
National Intelligence Agency (NIA). This goes to show that Atiku is obsessed
with finding allegations of corruption against President Buhari to the point
where the PDP candidate continues to accuse him of being connected to the
people he has sacked.
We also saw Bola Tinubu, former
Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the APC; Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff
to President Muhammadu Buhari and other past and serving appointees making the
list even when they have never been convicted by any court, save the circus of
public opinion convened by Atikulooters.
“Most infuriating for Nigerians
is Atiku Abubakar’s indiscretion in including names of patriots like Lieutenant
General Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff, which is wrong on many levels.
“We consider it most unpatriotic
to insult a man that is leading Nigerian troops against terrorist in this
manner without substantiating the allegations of corruption against him. It is
on record that the Code of Conduct Bureau has cleared him long ago and he has
not been convicted by any law court. We have followed Buratai antecedents and
know him as an honest and transparent man, who has conducted himself
appropriately in office.
“It is ridiculous how the same
candidate that was harping on the need for the military to be apolitical to now
be the one trying to drag the Army into politics.
“The inclusion of a serving
military chief in his phantom list is consistent with the errands that Atiku’s
minions and urchins have been running on his behalf for several months now.
These errands, as have been reported, are meant to undermine the military and
provoke a leadership change so that pro-coup-plot officers that are sympathetic
to reversing Atiku’s unfolding political twilight will come into office.
This is a brazen threat against
our democracy and must not be received halfheartedly. Nigerians must rise up
across party line to demand that Atiku contain whatever emotional fall out
arising from his imminent loss to himself and not drag the country down with
him.
“CESJET warns that attempts by
desperate politicians to drag the Army as an institution into politics should
be totally discarded as by well-meaning Nigerians will resist such plot using
all permissible means.
“There is no law that precludes
people from becoming insane by reason of emotional stress brought on by the glaring
confirmation of loss at the polls. What the Centre for Social Justice, Equity
and Transparency (CESJET) and indeed the entire Nigerians will not condone is
when the insanity involves the patient going berserk and indiscriminately
throwing muds at honorable citizens, whose weakest moments trump Atiku at his
most pious.”
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