Nigerians Have Not Forgotten, Tinubu Tells Atiku

Nigerians Have Not Forgotten, Tinubu Tells Atiku

As political parties trade insults ahead of the 2023 general election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has reminded his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, that he once couldn’t access his home town of Jada due to Boko Haram’s activities.

He was responding to claims by the PDP and its leaders that the insurgency was created by the All Progressives Congress, which the APC said could not be sustained because the insurgency began in 2009.

Tinubu, speaking through Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media & Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council, stated that Atiku and PDP leaders are attempting to confuse Nigerians about the ignoble PDP’s role in the birth of insurgency in the country, but added that Nigerians cannot be taken for granted.

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“Leaders of Peoples Democratic Party and its Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar are playing on our seeming forgetfulness and insulting our collective intelligence.

“Having consistently shown a lack of capacity for introspection, PDP Leaders have been going about the country slandering the All Progressives Congress-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari, believing that as Nigerians we have forgotten their atrocious era and that we are unappreciative ignoramuses.

“Notably Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the party that once contemplated changing its brand name because of its atrocious record, has been emboldened by our assumed forgetfulness as a nation, mounting podiums and trying to deodorise and beautify the party’s ugly era.

“Alhaji Atiku blamed the APC for the emergence of Boko Haram, forgetting that the insurgents emerged in 2009 under his party’s watch. He blamed Buhari over the economic challenges, forgetting that he opportunistically joined the coalition that toppled the clueless PDP government of President Jonathan when the economy was nose-diving.

“Atiku has now been joined by Abubakar Saraki, the failed Senate President and saboteur-in-chief of the Buhari agenda, who in his latest comment in Ilorin, urged Nigerians to “go back to the PDP at both the State and the national levels”. In the famous words of Dino Melaye, we say “PDP: God forbid ”.