By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
VEO NewsVEO News
Notification Show More
Latest News
Tinubu swears in INEC commissioners, CCB board members
May 12, 2025
JUST IN: Former military administrator Olubolade dies at 70
May 12, 2025
Nigeria’s Economy Grows Strongly Amid High Inflation — World Bank
May 12, 2025
Dangote refinery offers N10 refund on petrol to customers
May 12, 2025
Ekiti PDP Confident of Victory in 2026 Governorship Election
May 12, 2025
Aa
  • Nigeria
  • World
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Editorial
Reading: Tinubu: Atiku is delusional.
Share
Aa
VEO NewsVEO News
  • News
  • Metro
  • Entertainment
  • Technology
Search
  • Home
    • Home News
  • Categories
    • Technology
    • Entertainment
    • Metro
    • News
    • Health
  • Bookmarks
    • My Bookmarks
Have an existing account? Sign In
Follow US
VEO News > Blog > Hot Stories > Tinubu: Atiku is delusional.
Hot Stories

Tinubu: Atiku is delusional.

Editor
Last updated: 2023/03/03 at 6:47 AM
Editor Published March 3, 2023
Share
SHARE

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

IMMEDIATE RESPONSE BY THE TINUBU/ SHETTIMA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL TO THE PRESS CONFERENCE BY ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR:

ATIKU ABUBAKAR SHOULD QUIT BEING DELUSIONAL: HE DESTROYED HIS PARTY AND REAPED THE FULL CONSEQUENCE OF HIS INDISCRETION

In the typical fashion of the last kick of a dying horse, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar this evening addressed the Press and claimed that the 2023 Presidential Election was neither free nor fair. He made this bogus claim without providing a shred of evidence, except to trumpet the noise made by his supporters on social media. He also went ahead to make unfounded derogatory comments about the person of the President-elect, ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu in obvious bitterness and frustration.

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar should be thankful that he even exceeded expectations in the elections by coming 2nd; with all the distractions and fractured party with which he campaigned he must have sensed beforehand that he was headed for a humiliating defeat that should have put him a distant 3rd or 4th in the elections. His performance was therefore the best he could achieve.

Firstly, Atiku Abubakar breached the zoning principle within his own party by insisting on running for President when that was clearly against the mood of the nation; even after emerging as a candidate, the PDP itself continued to rub insult on the faces of southern leaders in the Party by insisting on keeping the position of National Chairman in the North. This obviously led to the rebellion of the G5 Governors and their subsequent sabotage of the PDP before the polls and at the polls by campaigning against ATIKU’S candidature. His failure to unite his party and manage this post-primaries fall-out was his eventual undoing.

ATIKU’S bid for the Presidency this time around was dead on arrival when his inordinate ambition fractured his party into 3 parts, with Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso and Mr. Peter Obi breaking away to the NNPP and the Labour Party respectively. The massive loss he suffered in traditional PDP zones and States is a clear testament to this. One wonders, then, how he expected to have won the election. It is also comical to see that he claims victory at the polls together with Mr. Peter Obi with whom his party has been holding Press Conferences.

Nigerians have since seen through the ambition of ATIKU Abubakar that it is merely self-serving. Hence, he has run for Presidency at every point in time in the last 30 years, irrespective of the zoning tilt of the nation. Following his successive failures and rejection by Nigerians in different elections, it should be clear to him by now that he is simply UNELECTABLE. The expositions relating his self-confessed mode of syphoning public funds whilst in office through SPVs further dented his aspiration before Nigerians.

Atiku Abubakar’s decision to challenge the outcome of the results is welcome. We are prepared to meet his challenge, no matter the nature of the challenge, anywhere and anytime.

If ATIKU Abubakar is not embracing the olive branch extended to him and other losers in the 2023 elections by the President-elect, ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the least he can do is to quietly relocate to Dubai which has become his traditional home base.

Thank you.

FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN, FCIArb(UK)

· Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council.

· Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Federal Republic of Nigeria. SAN, FCIArb(UK) I

You Might Also Like

Tinubu Seeks Senate Confirmation for Boards of Regional Development Commissions

Top 15 Things You Should Know About the New Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV

Bill Gates to Donate 99% of $200B Fortune, Wind Down Gates Foundation by 2045

Akpabio Warns Obi Over “Divisive” Remarks As War Of Words Escalates

Senate Passes Final Two Tax Reform Bills, Completes Legislative Package

Editor March 3, 2023
Share this Article
Facebook Twitter Email Print
Leave a comment

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

© VEONews | All rights reserved. Developed by Digit Wharehouse

Removed from reading list

Undo
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Lost your password?