Atiku Abubakar. PDP's Presidential Candidate. |
Our
attention has been drawn to a statement released by the Buhari Campaign
Organisation which cast aspersions on the emergence of His Excellency Atiku
Abubakar as the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and
suggested that his emergence was the result of money politics.
We
are not surprised that there is confusion in the President’s camp. We expected
that they would be thrown into a catatonic state knowing that HE Atiku
Abubabakr’s emergence automatically means the coming end of their ignominious
reign. That much was admitted by the President’s former running mate, Pastor
Tunde Bakare when he praised the emergence of HE Atiku as an ‘Eagle’ and ‘a
cosmopolitan wazobia’ politician. Obviously, Pastor Tunde Bakare has foreseen
that the era of 97% versus 5% has come to an end with the emergence of the pan
Nigerian Atiku Abubakar.
We
ask how can the Buhari Campaign Organisation disparage the PDP Primary that
produced His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, when even the President’s own wife,
Aisha Buhari, has condemned the APC’s primary? Not only did Mrs Buhari condemn
APC’s primaries, she described them as ‘unfair’ and lacking in integrity. Who
can know President Buhari better than his wife?
Eleven
aspirants contested against His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, during the
Presidential primary of the PDP. Every single one of them accepted his victory.
President Buhari was the only candidate cleared by the APC to contest its
primary. Yet, a coalition of 5 aspirants are challenging his victory. That
alone tells Nigerians his emergence is fraudulent.
Nigerians
know that Atiku Abubakar is the most investigated politician in Nigeria and any
smear by the Buhari administration remains just that. With the vindictiveness
of President Buhari, he would have arrested HE Abubakar if he had been found
wanting.
However,
to set the record straight, we want to remind Nigerians that PDP’s primaries
were genuine, free and fair. Atiku Abubakar got 1,532 votes in a contest
televised live to millions of Nigerians. The All Progressives Congress’
primary, on the other hand, was a study in dictatorship and corruption. The
sole candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, scored almost 15 million votes. How could
that occur without rigging or manufacturing of faceless voters?
No
wonder Transparency International rated Nigeria as more corrupt today under
Buhari, than just three years ago when the PDP was in power. The scandals are
too numerous, including the $25 billion NNPC contracts awarded without due
process, the several padded budgets, the $41 million Ikoyi Apartment scandal,
the recall, reinstatement and double promotion of pension thief and Buhari
financier, Abdulrasheed Maina, the N200 million grass cutter scandal, and many
others too numerous to mention.
The
choice before Nigerians in 2019 is a simple one. Nigerians have a choice of
electing a lively candidate with a record of providing 50,000 jobs to Nigerians
in his private capacity versus the lifelessness (apologies to President Donald
Trump) of a candidate under whom Nigeria lost 11 million jobs and became the
world headquarters for extreme poverty.
Nigerians
have a choice of a man who will provide an efficient and business-friendly
solution to the herdsmen crisis and a man whose government said ‘giving land
for cattle ranching is better than death’.
It
is very obvious that faced with such a choice that Nigerians would definitely
vote for the man who will Get Nigeria Working Again, hence we are not surprised
by this desperate statement from the Buhari administration that is so shameless
that they made a man implicated in framing a man of God on spurious charges as
their spokesman. If he can lie against a man of God, should Nigerians believe
anything he says about the PDP and its candidate?
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