A group, the Oduduwa Vanguard, has fired back at the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for allegedly attacking President Muhammadu Buhari over the federal government’s $500,000 donation to Guinea Bissau. The group asked Atiku to take a course on economy before trying to provide advice.

Atiku had slammed the federal government’s $500,000 donation to Guinea Bissau, as wasteful. According to him, it was one of the ways that President Muhammadu Buhari administration brought a once thriving economy to its knees. But the Oduduwa Vanguard described Atiku’s comment as un-strategic. Aare Kunle Adewole, President of the group said Atiku was not qualified to be entrusted with making decisions for 200 million Nigerians because he lacked patience to fully understand issues before reacting. According to Kolawale, “We wonder how an Atiku that can donate lavishly to buy cars for women will find it wrong that Nigeria wants to play its big brother role to other Africa nations. This is double standard at play at best and we advise the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari not to join Atiku at the level to which he has sunken. It will amount to wrestling a hog in the mud.

The group said if Atiku had been patient enough, he would have seen that there are gains to Nigeria when the donations to Guinea Bissau are well exploited. “For one, a revived Guinea Bissau or any other African country provides fertile grounds for Nigerians to go exploit since we fortunately have enterprising Nigerians that have made marks for themselves in their places of sojourn. “We believe that helping other nations to stay afloat when we can is a strategic way of ensuring that our country’s huge population is able to spread outwards to these other places and earn their keep. An intelligent person will realize that remittances from the funds repatriated by such Nigerians will go a long way to helping the economy back home.

“But we ask for once that he should believe in the capacity of other people to be upright. Such realistic perception of others would have made him to realize that the money promised to Guinea Bissau is not the type wasted on sponsoring team members to Dubai or for paying a foreign agent to procure election hacking services from Russia.

“By using “Father Christmas”, a concept synonymous with contemporary Christianity, to imply wastefulness, Atiku has shown that he holds the spirit of giving among adherents of this religion in disdain hence the negative casting of the joy that Father Christmas brings to the world. “This is unacceptable, highly condemnable and we expect the PDP candidate to immediately apologize to the Christian population for this slight. Had such offensive analogy been made with icons of other religions, there is all tendency that all hell would have broken loose by now.”


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