Atiku Abubakar’s criticism of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition team, according to Mr. Osita Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is an example of crocodile tears, medicine administered after one has passed away, and political hypocrisy.
In the most recent election, PDP presidential candidate Atiku bemoaned the fact that there was not a single Igbo person on the list of members of Tinubu’s transition committee.
Atiku’s attempt to represent Igbo interests, however, according to Okechukwu, who responded to the observation, amounts to the former vice president crying crocodiles. Okechukwu cited how the former vice president brazenly violated the PDP’s zoning arrangement and the convention of electing presidents from the north to the south and vice versa.
Okechukwu argued that Atiku’s efforts to represent Ndigbo are a crystal-clear illustration of medicine after death and that Atiku’s betrayal of Ndigbo during the PDP Presidential primary contest was the deepest and cruelest cut.
“I make the bold claim that the former Vice President had long since lost the moral high ground to parade himself or even to pontificate as a friend of Ndigbo,” said Okechukwu. It is blatant hypocrisy and cannot undo the harm that our loving brother-in-law caused to Igbo PDP members.
When His Excellency, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the party’s founding chairman, was pushed away at the Jos convention in 1999, one reflects with nostalgia on the Ndigbo people’s strong ties to the PDP. They did the same, which was even more traumatic, when President Buhari chose Rt. Hon. Chuba Okadigbo and Rt. Hon. Edwin Ume-Ezeoke as his running mates in the 2003 and 2007 presidential elections, respectively.
“Although I embrace inclusive politics, His Excellency Atiku Abubukar has the necessary resources to back Peter Obi in the PDP’s primaries for the presidency in 2023.
But here was a man who left the PDP in 2014 and joined the APC in opposition to the previous president Goodluck Jonathan’s violation of the South to North rotation convention of the presidency, saying that Governor Nyesom Wike’s ambition forced him to run again in the PDP presidential primaries. It makes no sense at all.
Okechukwu, who is also the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), expressed his annoyance with Atiku’s objective criticism of the transition committee list by saying that no one should wage a proxy war on behalf of Ndigbo because “Ndigbo are like the fabled Beetle, and nobody can kill the Beetle.”
“More than any other tribe, we are the fabled Beetle, supreme Zikists, and patriots. In his speech, Atiku was merely weeping like a crocodile. I could be proven wrong since we invest everywhere we live and live in every corner of our beloved nation. We continue to advocate for allowing both the Eagle and the Dove to perch.
The real issue, according to Okechukwu, is that no geopolitical region is modernizing or developing at the needed rate, as their international counterparts are doing.
He said, “I believe that Atiku is the one who publicly declared naka sai naka and Namu! In the event that the election is called off, Namu!, which means “Your own is your own” to his northern brothers, is courting Ndigbo for a potential run-off.
“As someone who believes that a politics of inclusiveness is what holds our beloved country together, I would advise Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to use Tiwa! Tiwa! (My possessions are mine).
In addition to the preceding names, Tinubu recently sent a 13-man list to Boss Mustapha, the departing Secretary to the Government of the Federation, excluding the Southeast.
Tinubu Transition Committee: Okechukwu’s complaint over Atiku’s complaints without mentioning Ndigbo crocodile tears
Atiku Abubakar’s criticism of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition team, according to Mr. Osita Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is an example of crocodile tears, medicine administered after one has passed away, and political hypocrisy.
In the most recent election, PDP presidential candidate Atiku bemoaned the fact that there was not a single Igbo person on the list of members of Tinubu’s transition committee.
Atiku’s attempt to represent Igbo interests, however, according to Okechukwu, who responded to the observation, amounts to the former vice president crying crocodiles. Okechukwu cited how the former vice president brazenly violated the PDP’s zoning arrangement and the convention of electing presidents from the north to the south and vice versa.
Okechukwu argued that Atiku’s efforts to represent Ndigbo are a crystal-clear illustration of medicine after death and that Atiku’s betrayal of Ndigbo during the PDP Presidential primary contest was the deepest and cruelest cut.
“I make the bold claim that the former Vice President had long since lost the moral high ground to parade himself or even to pontificate as a friend of Ndigbo,” said Okechukwu. It is blatant hypocrisy and cannot undo the harm that our loving brother-in-law caused to Igbo PDP members.
When His Excellency, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, the party’s founding chairman, was pushed away at the Jos convention in 1999, one reflects with nostalgia on the Ndigbo people’s strong ties to the PDP. They did the same, which was even more traumatic, when President Buhari chose Rt. Hon. Chuba Okadigbo and Rt. Hon. Edwin Ume-Ezeoke as his running mates in the 2003 and 2007 presidential elections, respectively.
“Although I embrace inclusive politics, His Excellency Atiku Abubukar has the necessary resources to back Peter Obi in the PDP’s primaries for the presidency in 2023.
But here was a man who left the PDP in 2014 and joined the APC in opposition to the previous president Goodluck Jonathan’s violation of the South to North rotation convention of the presidency, saying that Governor Nyesom Wike’s ambition forced him to run again in the PDP presidential primaries. It makes no sense at all.
Okechukwu, who is also the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), expressed his annoyance with Atiku’s objective criticism of the transition committee list by saying that no one should wage a proxy war on behalf of Ndigbo because “Ndigbo are like the fabled Beetle, and nobody can kill the Beetle.”
“More than any other tribe, we are the fabled Beetle, supreme Zikists, and patriots. In his speech, Atiku was merely weeping like a crocodile. I could be proven wrong since we invest everywhere we live and live in every corner of our beloved nation. We continue to advocate for allowing both the Eagle and the Dove to perch.
The real issue, according to Okechukwu, is that no geopolitical region is modernizing or developing at the needed rate, as their international counterparts are doing.
He said, “I believe that Atiku is the one who publicly declared naka sai naka and Namu! In the event that the election is called off, Namu!, which means “Your own is your own” to his northern brothers, is courting Ndigbo for a potential run-off.
“As someone who believes that a politics of inclusiveness is what holds our beloved country together, I would advise Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to use Tiwa! Tiwa! (My possessions are mine).
In addition to the preceding names, Tinubu recently sent a 13-man list to Boss Mustapha, the departing Secretary to the Government of the Federation, excluding the Southeast.
