You Failed ‘Fantastically’ To Execute Whatever Economic Ideas You May Have When You Were Nigeria’s Vice President, APC Tells Atiku
The ruling party also accused him of also failing to get the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to do so during the 16 years it was in power.
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his recent criticism of the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
Describing him as the Africa’s most infamous election loser, in a statement issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, Esq., the party noted that he had a chance to execute whatever economic ideas he may have ever had but failed to do so as vice president.
The ruling party also accused him of also failing to get the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to do so during the 16 years it was in power.
The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday claimed that the 2023 presidential election won by President Tinubu was “criminally stolen” from him.
Atiku’s statement comes over a year after the Nigerian Supreme Court affirmed Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election.
Atiku also blamed Tinubu for the “excruciating pain” suffered by citizens due to what he described as “trial-and-error economic policies” implemented by the administration.
However, reacting to the statement, APC slammed Atiku, questioning why he was yet to fix the rot and hopeless dysfunction of his party, PDP, if he thinks himself capable of fixing Nigeria.
Morka said that since serving as vice president, Atiku 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,” he said, “Atiku is Africa’s most infamous presidential election loser.”
APC spokesman stated that despite 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, yet he continues to lay a bogus claim that he did not lose the 2023 presidential election.
The APC said, “That is beyond comical. Just as he probably believes that he was cheated out of all previous five presidential elections that he also lost. Atiku’s inability to come to terms with the reality of his rejection cuts an ominous portrait of extreme and disturbing political desperation.
“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.’”
Morka added, “Atiku is a central and recurrent player in some of our country’s most vile roll call of corruption scandals perpetrated by PDP administration.
“Atiku 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.
“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.
“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.”
He appealed Nigerians to support the APC administration led by President Tinubu.
