2019: APC launch attacks on Atiku
By As the campaign for the 2019 general elections gets tougher, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC National Secretariat and the Buhari Campaign Organization have launched fierce attacks on the Presidential Candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
While the APC National Secretariat said Atiku is already showing signs of depression ahead of the election, Buhari Presidential Campaign Organization stated that Atiku is supposed to be in jail for his corrupt practices.
Lanre Issa- Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary, in a statement noted that, “the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is exhibiting early signs of depression, resulting from obvious frustration. Consequently, he is unable to focus on his campaign.
“Otherwise, he should tell Nigerians why a discredited person like him should be elected as President instead of raising puerile allegations on a daily basis. President Buhari and APC, not his programmes for the country appear to be his main campaign issues. Nigerians are desirous of campaign that focuses on issues that matter to them.
“For Atiku and his PDP co-travellers, the only interest is to grab power and continue where they stopped in their avarice. The APC administration is eager to showcase the impressive achievements we have recorded in the last three and half years. This is the campaign that matters to us and this is what Nigerians are interested in. The trajectory is exciting as we see a brighter future shaping up. We won’t yield to the PDP’s shenanigans.
“The obvious strategy of the PDP is to truncate the country’s journey towards economic buoyancy and social stability. We will not play the PDP’s game. PDP is acting an anti-people’s script. President Buhari remains unshaken by the desperate efforts being made by Atiku and the PDP to blackmail the APC government. Everyone who was involved in corrupt practices would be brought to justice.
“PDP is not offering any alternative to the progressive course this government is pursuing. It is actually apparent that the party is not contesting the 2019 elections to redeem itself, least of doing any good for the country, but simply to seize power to escape justice for the grevious crimes committed against the people of this country.
“Nigerians won’t be fooled by the rapacious PDP gang. Never”.
Festus Keyamo, Director of Strategic Communication and Official Spokesperson of the Buhari Campaign Organization while reacting to a statement credited to Atiku for blaming President Buhari for perceived failure in addressing some instances of ‘corrupt practices’ under his watch, accepted that indeed the failure exist or Atiku would have been in jail for corruption.
“Let us remind Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that he is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the failed system in tackling corruption that was in place before President Muhammadu Buhari took over in 2015. We know he is aware of this, hence his latest diatribe against President Muhammadu Buhari amounts to nothing but disgusting grandstanding and an attempt to mock the system.
“If the system in Nigeria was indeed working, Atiku Abubakar would not have acquired substantial shares in INTELS in clear conflict of his duties as a Customs Officer whilst in office. Those shares would have belonged to the Nigerian people by now.
If the system in Nigeria was indeed working, Atiku Abubakar would not have run a monopolistic company called INTELS all these years, ripping off the Nigerian people and the Nigerian State before Muhammadu Buhari came and broke that monopoly.
“If the system was working, Atiku Abubakar would have been prosecuted and jailed for various acts of corruption and abuse of office after he left office as Vice President, some of which are; for himself and his boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, granting themselves licenses to build universities as President and Vice President whilst in office in clear breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers”, Keyamo argued.