The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar yesterday said the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu waited for when the election is around the corner to espouse solutions to the challenges facing the country.

Atiku stated this while reacting to Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, who mocked him (Atiku) during the presentation of the manifesto of the APC to the business community and organised private sector in Lagos on Tuesday.

Shettima, at the gathering, described Atiku as a political tourist, who will be permanently retired to the United Arab Emirates after the 2023 election.

He also said that because Atiku sells bottled water, it does not make him an expert on the economy.

Responding, the PDP candidate, in a statement by his media aide, Paul Ibe, said the APC candidate went on ultra highway of political indecency, rather than use the advantage of such a gathering to talk about solutions that their party, APC, has foisted on the country.

Atiku added that it was shameful that Shettima would denigrate a going business that employs a large chunk of people in the Northeast region, regardless of whether the business is small business or big.

He added, “A gathering of the top echelons of the private sector was supposed to be an avenue for laying out serious policy choices. For Tinubu and Shettima on the contrary, they chose to embarrass their guests, using their audience to play vile political games.

“For someone who self-appoints as the APC national leader, it is ridiculous that the presidential candidate of the APC failed to proffer solutions to the economic woes that his party has foisted on Nigerians in the past seven years.

“Unlike Tinubu who sat idly by and watched his APC ruin Nigeria to the current sorry state, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has been consistent in proffering solutions to the myriads of ineffective policy options of the APC administration.

“Atiku, it was, who first raised the alarm about the debt burden that the APC has thrown Nigeria into. It was also Atiku who has continued to call the attention of the nation to the need to diversify the economy away from heavy dependence on exploration of crude oil. Atiku, again, was the one who said that the quickest path to lift the majority of Nigerians out of the poverty belt, is for the government to give incentives to the private sector in order for them to create more jobs for Nigerians.

“Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Atiku pioneered the private donor relief funds, which opened the gateway for other Nigerians of means to follow suit in providing succor to people who were worst hit by the attendant self isolation regulation in the management of the pandemic.


“Tinubu, who has been in hibernation mode for the seven years that his party unleashed the worst moment of economic hardship on Nigerians, has suddenly found a voice because, as it is usual with the APC, the time is here again to hoodwink the people with sugarcoated promises.”

Similarly, the director of strategic communications of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign council, Chief Dele Momodu, said Shettima was merely trying to point fingers at the specks in another man’s eyes while studiously ignoring the giant logs in his own eyes.

Momodu in a statement said APC is in total disarray with prominent members of his party openly apologizing to Nigerians for the unmitigated disaster it has foisted on Nigeria since 2015.

“This is one of the reasons APC members have been migrating in droves to PDP. It took almost forever for APC to achieve the simple task of constituting its Presidential Campaign Council, due to the total lack of unity in their party.

“It is very obvious that APC has become completely rudderless and many self-respecting members are jumping ship and being recovered by PDP.

“How can these APC candidates ever unite Nigerians when they’ve shown open disdain for the democratic and voting rights of certain ethnic groups within their domains?”He added that everything about APC and its candidates have been shrouded in secrecy and that they are unable to tell Nigerians the truth about anything.

“Alhaji Shettima alleged that Atiku Abubakar cannot be trusted with the economy of Nigeria. No heresy could be worse than this. Nigerians would want to know what businesses the APC candidates have managed personally and successfully except living outlandishly on government booty and largesse.”

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Nlfpmod

You can't give what you don't have. Tinubu only knows how to loot.

The Emilokan bastard that doesn't know whether he is alive or dead sef

He has already lost touch with reality

Birds of a feather...

what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

But people mumu well, well oh.. APC dey campaign to save Nigeria from APC and some brainless idiots here dey support them? Them do una? Another set of idiots na the mikanites...

I'll be voting for the first time in this coming election and the candidate I'll be voting for is Peter Obi..
No be say him dey perfect but when you put all the presidential aspirants together, na only Obi I dey see..

gbam ,atiku has a point ,if buhari a man appointed by tinubu was a failure ,what do you think tinubu will when he became president? (God forbid), why urchins no dey think, birds of the same feather ,flocks together!

Vote wisely

Why didn’t he turn Nigeria around when he was Vice President?

While APC and PDP are busy fighting each other, President Peter Obi(GCFR) is busy gathering more votes...

They should keep the fight on, it is healthy for President Peter Obi(GCFR)

Peter Obidient we want all others are counterfeit

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

You dey mind these people...

So Tinubu should force Buhari to do this and do that? lol

Exactly. He foisted this failure on us and is still continuing to, by putting up himself. A true disappointed man looking for penance, would give up power, acknowledge that APC failed Nigerians, and retire to his conscience. But nope, man is out there calling a female actress that made an honest name for herself an ant.

Both of u should retire from active politics. All una mates have retired

Atiku and Tinubu na same people dem be
Atiku d tackle himself


Peter Obi na d different candidate

Tacklers

Kindly check my signature if you are looking to buy land in Lagos

Someone should tell, the serial loser, Atiku, to avert the crisis in his own party first.

The DUBAI Tourist, will soon relocate to his abode come feb 2023 now

Shetima too like Vawulence

Adebanjo And Clark’s Distortion Of History

By

Jide Oluwajuyitan

On Nov 3, 2022

Culture and history are critical for the survival of any society. The former with its social, educational and spiritual dimensions, allows us to understand ourselves and why things are the way they are while the latter, as record of past events, allows us to find a pathway for the future.

Unfortunately, the ongoing battle for Igbo presidency by the duo of Pa Edwin Clark and Ayo Adebanjo is at best a distortion of our recent cultural and historical experiences. Their repeated warning of imminent disintegration of the country if there is no Igbo presidency by 2023 is seen by many as a strategy to remain relevant even at 94 forgetting the world is a stage.

Pa Clark has been reminded by many concerned Nigerians that if he so loves the Igbo, he should demonstrate such love by ensuring charity starts from home. He was part of the Gowon cabinet that set up David Mark-led Abandoned Properties Committee after the civil war. Instead of issuing inciting statements to mislead our youths who have no knowledge of our history, he as leader of Ijaw nation, should prevail on his people to release Igbo properties confiscated since 1970 by Ijaws who rightly claim ownership of the land on which the properties were erected. After all, the Igbo returned to Lagos after the civil war not only to take possession of their properties, but rents collected for them by their Yoruba hosts including Pa Subomi Balogun who was said to have handed huge funds to the late vice president, Alex Ekwueme upon his return to Lagos after the civil war.

Following Pa Clark passion and drive for Igbo presidency, many have also wondered when the love between him, his people and the Igbo nation started. I am sure concerned Nigerians just want to be sure Pa Clark is not driven by opportunism just to remain relevant because what we have on record is that he and his Ijaw nation, for fear of their more aggressive and resourceful Igbo neighbours, have since independence sought refuge under Hausa-Fulani in faraway north. Not too long ago, I think it was Tanko Yakassai , one of the founding fathers of Arewa Consultative Forum, who reminded Clark of this historical fact .

As for Ayo Adebanjo, he apparently just couldn’t stand the success of his son. When he claimed ownership of the carcass of AD after Obasanjo’s deadly blow to the party in 2003, Tinubu left him with his trophy to form the AC that later metamorphosed into ACN, the platform he used to retrieve Obasanjo’s stolen governorship victories in Yoruba strongholds of Edo, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun. Adebanjo reluctantly praised his son for saving the West from Obasanjo.

But Adebanjo became green with envy when Tinubu aligned his ACN with Buhari’s CPC and other parties to form the APC that took Yoruba mainstream political tendency to the centre for the first time since independence in 1960. Adebanjo vigorously campaigned against APC in 2015 just as he did in 2019 when he railroaded Afenifere to supporting Atiku and Peter Obi ticket against Buhari and Osinbajo, his son. Pa Adebanjo lost out on both occasions precisely because Yoruba voters are never led by the nose.

This is why many believe his current endorsement of Obi as the only man who would restructure the country will probably not count for much. This is because, unlike 2015 and 2019, the stakes are higher in 2023. For the Yoruba, “omo eni ki buru, kale f’ekun je”(your child cannot be so disobedient that you drive him to the lion’s den). That was the message of last Sunday’s public endorsement of Bola Tinubu by Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the respected and undisputed leader of Afenifere who believes Tinubu, his son, is better equipped and better prepared to tackle Nigerian problems than Peter Obi.

Unfortunately, while trying to cry louder than the bereaved, Adebanjo and Clark have not clearly defined what they mean by Igbo marginalisation. If it is in terms of the breach of federal character principle as President Buhari has been accused of doing with his lopsided appointment into sensitive positions, Igbo maximized the same opportunity under Balewa and Ironsi 1959-1966 and between 2011 and 2015 when they hijacked Jonathan government.

However, if by Igbo marginalization, Pa Clark and Adebanjo, meant exclusion of Igbo from the presidency, we also have no evidence Igbo political leaders have at any time expressed regret for the choices they have always made. What history tells us is that Igbo might have not been at the driver’s seat, they and Hausa Fulani jointly ruled Nigeria between 1959 and 2015. (General Alabi Isama “the Tragedy of Victory’)

And we cannot escape history.

In the 1959 election, Igbo dominated NCNC came first with about 2.6m votes, followed by AG with 2m votes and Ahmadu Bello’s NPC coming a distant third with 1.9m votes. Rather than form an alliance with AG and lead the country, Igbo leadership settled for NPC as an obedient beautiful bride. Their choice earned them juicy cabinet positions including the portfolios of Finance, Works, Transportation, Education, External Affairs, leadership of Nigeria railways, University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Nsukka and Yaba College of Technology among others.

In 1979, Igbo NPP came third after NPN and UPN. As it was in the first republic, Zik/NPP declared themselves the beautiful bride. NPP leaders including the revered rebel leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu who returned from exile after the war decided the way forward for the Igbo was a working alliance with NPN. Again the deal earned them the Senate presidency and speakership of the Lower house among other juicy cabinet portfolios.

In 1993, Igbo supported Tofa against MKO Abiola. And when Abiola against all odds won the election, some Igbo leaders led by Arthur Nzeribe and others, fearing there will be nothing to ‘chop’, provided dubious intellectual support for Babangida to annul the election. And when Abiola was incarcerated for winning an election, Igbo leaders including the revered Odumegwu Ojukwu who served as Abacha’s envoy to Europe to de-market MKO Abiola on account of his many wives, kept demonizing him in the media until his mysterious death.

In 1999, Igbo rejected Olu Falae , the Yoruba candidate to join the northern establishment and their retired military generals to impose Obasanjo who was roundly rejected by the Youruba, as president. And while vindictive Obasanjo marginalized Yoruba for eight years, the stars of his administration were prominent Igbos including Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chukwuma Soludo, Oby Ezekwesili, the Uba brothers and others. The joke among Igbo was with Obasanjo as president, Igbo nation needed no president of Ibo extraction.

President Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan’s government 2011-2915, with Anyim Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, like Obasanjo’s administration before it, was an Igbo government. Okonjo-Iweala, the de-facto prime minister, did not deny allegation Igbo took over her ministry and parastatals under her but tried to educate Nigerians that Igbo secured their positions on merit.

For the Igbo political elite, there are no regrets for their preference to serve our nation as ‘the beautiful bride’. The only people losing sleep over perceived Igbo marginalization are attention-seeking Pa Edwin Clark and his friend Pa Ayo Adebanjo who on Arise TV on Monday justified his support for Peter Obi by claiming that apart from him, there is no other living Yoruba that has so faithfully served the Yoruba nation.

TinubuThief:

The Emilokan bastard that doesn't know whether he is alive or dead sef

He has already lost touch with reality

You call Tinubu, a man "made in the image and likeness of God" baboon! Imagine what they would have called a German who should call Tinubu baboon! You call Tinubu Bastard! A man who apparently hasn't offended you in any way personally! A man who is obviously better than you in any classification by which success is categorised! You may not know it yet, but all reasonable people know that you're hateful, cruel and without a good soul. I wonder what you'll call Tinubu in May next year when he becomes president of Nigeria, when his Portrait as president will hang on the wall overlooking your Eze Igwe in your Town Hall? Remember that you're not God who declares the end from the beginning! God has blessed Tinubu in all areas of human desires. So you curse him at your own peril!

Tinubu is a fraudster

Let's look at some of APC promises.

I'm very happy that Buhari ruled this country again for 8 years.

Some of you that didn't know the failure very well would have been screaming that he's the best president that we never have if he didn't rule.

As for Emilokan, his ambition is dead on arrival

Werey, were you not in APC in 2015? What did you do to avert the Buhari disaster?
Who did Buhari listen to while he mismanaged Nigeria?
Obasanjo, Jonathan, Tinubu, Pastor Bakare and many others kept going to Aso Rock until they realized that they were talking to a wall.
Have idiots like Atiku forgotten how Tinubu was sidelined and relegated by Buhari to the delight of enemies? How then did he expect Tinubu to help?!
I swear most Nigerians are MAD! with their selective amnesia!

Okealaaye:


R

Tinubu is a drug addict..

knows nothing about governance

why do you think he runs away from live media interviews.

Redoil:
what could have tinubu done when buhari men have taken over the whole show

Has he ever meet Buhari on the way forward, because he have no solution than to steal.

If Tinubu is that good as was touted by agbadorians why did APC government which he belong put us y'all in this economic quagmire?a backward progression by the so called "progressive"

Noted

How can he whilst he is busy chasing his "birthright" meanwhile, Obidient is better than brains of selfishness

Islie:






https://leadership.ng/atiku-tackles-tinubu-for-not-helping-apc-avert-economic-crisis/


Nlfpmod

Wale Edun could not save Buhari, it is Tinubu he will save. APC ti luu leee, wicked, ika party.