Former vice chairman Atiku Abubakar has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) to fret about President Bola Tinubu’s fading capability somewhat than his political selections.
Atiku said this whereas reacting to a press release by the Lagos State chapter of APC, whose spokesman, Seye Oladejo, made references to the previous vice chairman’s latest formal membership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Atiku, in a press release by his senior particular assistant, Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, stated his political journey has been public, clear and totally documented, including that his age, mother and father, instructional information and public life might be traced from childhood to nationwide prominence with out the necessity for forensic consultants, personal investigators, or sworn affidavits to reconcile conflicting identities.
“This already locations him miles forward of their paymaster who — by all cheap public proof — is properly previous 90, but insists on clinging to energy and is already scheming for a second time period. If Atiku, a far more healthy, mentally sharper, and globally revered statesman, is “too previous” to aspire at 79, then what will we name a visibly frail chief whose true age stays one of many nation’s best-kept mysteries?
He added that the APC can not, on one hand, allow a person who has switched names, ages, origins, and academic histories, but however assault Atiku for making strategic political strikes inside a democratic system.
Noting that occasion mobility isn’t against the law in contrast to identification fraud, Atiku stated his determination to collaborate with the ADC is pushed by conviction, nation-building, and a shared democratic imaginative and prescient, not desperation.
“Solely these accustomed to treating political events as personal estates will discover such collaboration complicated.
“The Lagos APC ought to cease pretending to be involved about Nigeria’s future. Their actual worry is easy and comprehensible: Atiku Abubakar stays the one most formidable, skilled, and ready chief within the nation in the present day. His ethical stamina, political readability, and nationwide acceptance proceed to show the vacancy of the APC’s propaganda and the illegitimacy of the regime they serve.
“If the APC is on the lookout for a person outlined by “restlessness, panic, and desperation,” they needn’t look far. He’s within the Villa — struggling to manipulate, struggling to seem coherent, and struggling to persuade Nigerians that he’s the age he claims to be.
“Somewhat than issuing unintelligent statements, the Lagos APC ought to direct its power towards explaining the collapsing financial system, the insecurity consuming the nation, the hardship imposed on residents, and the human struggling that has change into the lasting legacy of their occasion,” he stated.
