- By Kamil Opeyemi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has describe as “perfidious” the route being taken by former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar to pursue his ambition to rule Nigeria.
Reacting to Thursday’s press conference where Atiku further accused President Bola Tinubu of lacking integrity and not being truthful with his academic records, the ruling party said Atiku “delivered nothing except the pitiful regurgitation of lies, mindless distortions and deliberate falsehood on his infantile obsession with the academic record of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.“
The party said it has watched Atiku’s alleged display of what it called “utter desperation in his failed bid to become the President of Nigeria.”
“Earlier today, he put his desperation in overdrive during his press conference where he addressed some of the issues in his appeal at the Supreme Court and bandying unproven charges against the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a calculated attempt to shamelessly whip up public sentiments and inordinately pressure the Supreme Court.
“We believe Atiku should have known better than to demonstrate gross contempt of the highest court by making public comments on a matter that he has submitted to the court for adjudication,” the party added
APC accused Atiku of harbouring “deep animosity” towards Tinubu “whom he believes was responsible for his electoral woes in 2007, 2015, 2019 and this year.”
The party went further, “In desperation, unbecoming of a statesman who once occupied the second highest office in the land, the PDP candidate in the last election has thrown every decency, decorum, dignity and national respectability out the window on his purposeless judicial voyage of discovery to the United States in search of a magic wand for taking power against the will of the Nigerian electorate loudly expressed in last February’s presidential election.
“Alhaji Atiku Abubakar holds the unenviable title of Nigeria’s most prolific election loser and longest running presidential candidate in history, and we see his recent US fishing expedition as the last kick of a roundly rejected presidential aspirant.
“While we sympathise with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for spending a lifetime pursuing unrealised dream, we strongly condemn the perfidious road he has taken and the needless negative exposure of Nigeria and the institution of the Presidency in foreign land.”