Atiku Abubakar & Muhammadu Buhari. |
Our
attention has been drawn to the statement by President Muhammadu Buhari
dismissing the endorsement of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,
former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, by the South East.
Speaking
at a meeting with a select group of southeast ‘leaders’ on Friday November 16,
2018, President poured scorn on the leaders and people of the Southeast
geopolitical zone who gave the endorsement.
We
are not surprised by this act of desperation. Muhammadu Buhari has always been
a divisive leader. Indeed, he even began his presidency on a divisive note.
We
recall, with great sadness, that when he was invited to speak at the United
States Institute for Peace on July 22, 2015, President Buhari said “the
constituents, for example, gave me 97% cannot in all honesty be treated on some
issues with constituencies that gave me 5%.”.
Three
years after making that statement, President Buhari has shown that he has not
changed. Even his meeting was with a “select group of south-east leaders”.
Nigerians should compare the President’s meeting with Atiku Abubakar’s meeting
of Wednesday 14, 2018.
Former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar did not meet with a “select group of south-east
leaders”. The PDP Presidential candidate met the entire leadership of the
Southeast cutting across political, religious, social and economic lines. He
did not pick and choose. He did not ‘select’. He embraced everyone, because
Atiku Abubakar is for ALL Nigerians, ALL the time.
At
the said event, President Buhari also said “we will not get tired of speaking
about the golden opportunity Nigeria lost during 16 years of the PDP”.
We
want to remind the President that under the PDP, Nigeria was rated the happiest
nation on earth, by Gallup Polls and other rating agencies, not once, but
twice. Alas, under President Buhari’s administration, Nigeria has officially
been named as the world headquarters for extreme poverty not once, but twice.
Once by the World Poverty Clock and then again by the World Economic Forum.
Moreover,
most major infrastructure that Nigerians are enjoying today, including the only
federal university in President Buhari’s home state, the Abuja-Kaduna railways,
Olorunshogo, Afam and Papalanto power plants, the revived national railway and
the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria which has eliminated frequent plane
crashes, were all built by PDP administrations.
The
President is also reminded that when Atiku Abubakar headed the National
Economic Council that paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt, under the able
leadership of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian crude oil sold for
precisely one third of what is is selling for today.
President
Obasanjo and then Vice President Atiku Abubakar simply paid off the debts piled
up by past military administrations, including Buhari’s draconian military
dictatorship, without complaining of blaming.
Sadly,
President Buhari is not aware of the basic rudiments of leadership, which is
that when the government starts blaming the opposition for its own failure to
perform, it is an admission that the government has failed.
Atiku
Abubakar will not stoop so low to blame others for things he is meant to fix.
Atiku means JOBS for Nigerians, not blame for Nigerians. This is a message we
urge all Nigerians to internalise as we call on citizens to join the Let’s Get
Nigeria Working Again Movement.
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