For declaring that he was rigged to victory in the 2023 general elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar, as “Africa’s most infamous presidential election loser.”
National Publicity Secretary of the ruling party, Barrister Felix Morka, in a statement said the former Vice President’s claim on his X handle (formerly Twitter) that he did not lose the last presidential election was a bogus claim.
The APC alleged that the PDP presidential candidate “was the Vice President in the government that created crooked and viscerally corrupt petrol subsidy hydra-headed dragon that has crippled our country’s economy, and laid the foundation for the endemic corruption and inefficiency that have undermined our power sector through the years.”
The statement maintained that Atiku’s “desperation to be president can only be understood in the context of his determination to complete the full subversion of Nigeria’s economic life from where he left off as Vice President. Nigerians will not entrust their country to someone who puts his selfish interest, and the interest of his cronies over and above the national interest.”
Making allusion to the leadership crisis rocking the main opposition party, the APC advised the former Vice President to ensure that peace returned to the PDP before seeking solution to Nigeria’s economic crises.
It further reads in part:’ Having now demystified himself with the release, last Sunday, of “What I Would Do Differently”, it is now settled that Atiku has nothing to offer Nigerians but his stale, tired, tested and failed economic ideas that are at polar relevance to the current existential economic challenges facing our country.
“Atiku had a chance to execute whatever economic ideas he may have ever had. He failed fantastically to do so as vice president and also failed to get his forlorn PDP to do so in all of their 16 profligate years. Atiku thinks himself capable of fixing Nigeria but cannot fix the rot and hopeless dysfunction in his PDP.
“We urge Nigerians to stand fast in support of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-administration of President Bola Tinubu and valiant effort to restore vitality to our economy for the good of all Nigerians.”
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