For the second day running, the ruling All progressives Congress (APC) has taunted the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, describing him as Africa’s most infamous election loser.
APC, in a statement yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, claimed that Atiku’s long record of electoral defeat was serially certified by Nigeria’s highest courts, sealing his rejection by the electorate with judicial and constitutional finality.
APC noted that it is surprising that Atiku has continued to lay what it termed as “a bogus claim” that he did not lose the 2023 presidential election. APC contended that Atiku’s desperation to be president can only be understood in the context of his determination to complete what it termed “the full subversion of Nigeria’s economic life from where he left off as Vice President.”
The ruling party stressed that Nigerians will not entrust their country to someone who, allegedly puts his selfish interest, and the interest of his cronies over and above the national interest.
APC observed that Atiku’s inability to come to terms with the reality of his rejection cuts an ominous portrait of extreme and disturbing political desperation.
It thereby urged Nigerians to stand fast in support of the party and administration of President Bola Tinubu in its valiant effort to restore vitality to the economy for the good of all Nigerians.
“Make no mistake. Atiku is Africa’s most infamous presidential election loser. Since serving as vice president, he has lost election to every single president that has been elected to office in Nigeria. Six times in the last 17 years, Nigerians have declared their verdict of untrustworthiness, incompetence, chronic corruption, visionlessness, uncanny desperation, and lack of sportsmanship on Atiku’s presidential candidacy, and roundly rejected him at the polls,” it noted.
“Nigeria’s intelligent and discerning electorate will not act against their own best interest by electing into office a man with some of the most obscene record of breach of public trust, so odious that, former President Olusegun Obasanjo reportedly stated that “if I support Atiku for anything, God will not forgive me”.
“Atiku is a central and recurrent player in some of our country’s most vile roll call of corruption scandals perpetrated PDP administrations.
“Wtiku 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.
“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.”
