The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign
council says Nigerians should be wary of the “sugar-coated” promises of Atiku
Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In a statement on Sunday, Bayo Onanuga, the campaign’s
director of media and publicity, said Abubakar’s promises are all “lies”.
Onanuga said with the performance of the PDP in its 16 years
in office, the opposition party has no grounds to seek another shot at the
presidency.
PDP was in power at the federal level between 1999 and 2015.
“Aware that this is
his last shot at the elusive presidency, Atiku, while on the hustings, has been
spewing series of lies, making empty promises and presenting a false narrative
about our present reality and the legacy of the 16-year ignoble era of the PDP
administration, of which he was a principal actor,” Onanuga said.
“He claimed at his rally in Abuja on Saturday that the
country is not secure for trading and farming, a false narrative that he has
been pushing around for some time, since he relocated to Nigeria from his base
in Dubai, principally to contest the election.
“We believe in his private moment that Atiku will concede
that his view about insecurity is exaggerated.
“Our country is
certainly better secure than in 2015 when the PDP allowed insurgents to seize
17 local councils in Borno and some four councils in Atiku’s home state of
Adamawa State, when Abuja was under constant bomb attacks and people slept with
eyes wide open.
“What further proof of progress made by the APC does Atiku
need than the fact that he was able, recently, to carry his party men and women
to Maiduguri to hold a rally, without any attacks by insurgents and bandits.
Atiku can also drive smoothly from Yola, his state capital to Jada, his home
town on a reconstructed road by the Buhari-led APC administration.”
Onanuga also said with the current crisis in the PDP, the
party has no basis to campaign with the promise of ‘rescuing” Nigeria.
“We ask again, can a party that cannot recover due to its
internal implosion and crisis recover and rescue Nigeria? Let PDP rescue and
recover itself and its abandoned national secretariat first. After raising over
N20 Billion to build a national party office, PDP and its leaders plundered the
money the same way they plundered our country,” he said.
“Our advice to
Nigerians is to ignore anything Atiku Abubakar says. He is a bloody liar and a
desperate politician who should never be trusted.”
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