On Sunday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council urged Nigerians not to believe the “sugar-coated” pledges made by Atiku Abubakar, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate.
The party in power, the PCC, also said that the former vice president was trying to take power at the last minute.
This incident occurs just 24 hours after Atiku promised to properly provide Abuja natives with all of their privileges and appointments should he be elected president.
Atiku made the promise during the PDP presidential rally held in Abuja on Saturday. He also promised to safeguard the ambitions of the Abuja people in a revised constitution.
But the APC presidential campaign committee didn’t like the idea and warned that Atiku was trying too hard to trick voters with empty promises.
This information was released in a statement made on Sunday in Abuja by Bayo Onanuga, the APC PCC’s director of media and publicity.
Onanuga made fun of a party for trying to make the “locust years” sound like they were the best time in Nigeria’s history, even though they had a terrible track record of running the country from 1999 to 2015.
“Of course, this is the worst kind of bogus history,” he remarked. We are not taken in. Additionally, Nigerians should not fall for the blatant lies being spread by the candidate and his group.
“As Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party begin their extreme and desperate drive to capture power at any cost, we need to caution Nigerians to be aware of the sugar-coated promises they make.”
The boldness of Atiku to get up and ask for our votes in spite of what his boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote about him in his book, “My Watch,” is even more stunning. According to Obasanjo, forcing him upon Nigeria would have been an unforgivable error and a sin against God. Obasanjo will retain that opinion tomorrow.
Atiku’s shadowy parentage, his propensity for corruption, his tendency toward disloyalty, his inability to say and stick to the truth all the time, a propensity for poor judgment, his belief and reliance on marabouts, his lack of transparency, his trust in money to buy his way out on all issues, and his willingness to forgo morality, integrity, propriety, truth, and the national interest are all things that Obasanjo regrets to this day.
“However, we are not entirely surprised by Atiku’s most recent act of desperation.” Atiku has been on the hustings, spewing a series of lies, making empty promises, and presenting a false narrative about our current reality and the legacy of the 16-year ignoble era of the PDP administration, of which he was a principal actor, aware that this is his final attempt at the elusive presidency.
He asserted at his rally in Abuja on Saturday that the nation is unsafe for farming and trading, a bogus assertion that he has been spreading since he moved to Nigeria from his base in Dubai, mostly to run for office.
“We think Atiku would admit that his perception of insecurity is exacerbated in his private moments.” Our nation is unquestionably safer now than it was in 2015, when the PDP enabled terrorists to take control of 17 local councils in Borno and about four councils in Atiku’s home state of Adamawa State, when Abuja was constantly under bomb assault and citizens slept with their eyes wide open.
What more evidence does Atiku need that the APC has advanced than the fact that he recently managed to transport members of his party to Maiduguri to host a rally without being attacked by militants or bandits? On a newly renovated road built by the Buhari-led APC administration, Atiku can also travel without incident from Yola, the state capital, to Jada, his hometown. Up until the Buhari administration rebuilt it, the road was inaccessible for the eight years that Atiku served as vice president. It also got steadily worse and was completely cut off from civilization.
