The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has said it is evil for
anyone to place the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) Atiku Abubakar, in the same democratic league with the late Moshood
Abiola or ex-Vice President, Alex Ekwueme.
The group said this in a statement signed and issued by its
Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Casiddy Madueke in Abuja on Sunday.
It said the comparison that Atiku media handlers are trying
to sell to Nigerians was totally off the mark because facts on the ground do
not support the position they made in response to Federal Government’s allusion
to Atiku as a threat to the nation’s democracy.
BMO said this was just another attempt to rewrite history in
order to paint Atiku in good light.
The statement reads, “It is laughable that Atiku media
handlers could attempt to configure a not-too-recent history by passing off
Atiku Abubakar, not only as a Democrat but to also compare him with more
distinguished Nigerians like Moshood Abiola and Alex Ekwueme both of blessed
memory.
“We know they have a job to do and we don’t envy them at
all. Anyone that is saddled with the task of painting a good picture of a
serially tainted politician would throw words around and hope that no one would
notice the fallacies.
“Atiku’s political antecedents cannot be associated with
that of a Democrat. Here is a man that is willing to move and has actually
moved three times between two different ruling parties and the opposition after
failing to have his way.
“None of the people his media men have name-checked in their
recent statement has had to change parties to satisfy a selfish desire. Both
men were known to have suffered perceived injustices in their political
journey, but like true democrats, they stayed back to help build their
respective political parties.
“Atiku is a dangerously desperate politician that is known
to have threatened violence at a forum in Abuja, shortly after he lost the PDP
Presidential ticket in a bitter contest to the then President Goodluck Jonathan
before the 2011 election.
“Before then, there was an unprecedented intra-party
acrimony that was so characterised by mudslinging that the then opposition
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) had to issue a statement calling for peace in
the ranks of the ruling PDP.
“These facts are very much in the public domain, so it is
preposterous that the Atiku camp is seeking to feed Nigerians with a red
herring,” the group said.
BMO also wondered why the former Vice president Atiku
Abubakar and his media handlers would seek to rubbish history with false
narratives on the actual role he played in the dying days of military rule.
“His media aides want Nigerians to believe that he joined
forces with MKO Abiola and Ekwueme to fight the then Abacha dictatorship, but
nothing could be farther from the truth.
“Nigerians would recall that Atiku Abubakar was a ranking
member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on whose platform Abiola ran for
the Presidency on June 12 1993, but since he lost out in his bid to be the
running mate to Abiola, he clearly went off the political radar and was not
even known to play a major role in the electioneering campaigns.
“There was also no record of his participation in efforts
spearheaded by activists to force the military government to respect the wish
of the people, neither was he one of those who publicly took on Abacha when he
usurped power.
“And even when Ekwueme took up the gauntlet to lead the political
opposition against the late General Abacha, Atiku was never part of the
politicians in the forefront of an initiative that began as G9 but later
metamorphosed into G18 and G34 respectively.
“The best he did was his less than inspiring membership of
the 1994 Constitutional Conference which had Ekwueme as the leading light, but
which was largely boycotted by members of his own party who were insisting on
the June 12 mandate.”
The group maintained that the only time Atiku and Ekwueme
could be mentioned in the same sentence is when a list of the country’s former
Vice Presidents is drawn.
“Yes both of them were Vice Presidents at different times
but Nigerians know that while one is the epitome of loyalty and had been
acknowledged by his principal, the other had on several occasions been
described in uncomplimentary terms by his own.”
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