Atiku says what Nigerians would remember about Buhari
Abubakar Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a dig at the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
In his social media broadcast Wednesday, Atiku said that Nigeria had “dipped below all known standards or socio-economic benchmarks” under the current federal government.
He added that the Buhari-led government had also “made us doubt our strength as a people”, adding that “the greatest thing that the APC government will be remembered for is how it failed to maintain the integrity of our unity and how it has put a knife between the things that held us together.”
Atiku said the incumbent government had since 2015 “visited on Nigeria malfeasances, despair, maladministration, pervasive insecurity, and unprecedented corruption.”
He said, in addition, that his mission is to “rescue Nigeria, unify, and rebuild the now broken bridges of brotherhood.”
Atiku launched his presidential campaign, with a book launch, on Wednesday.
As vice president to former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo, Atiku had handled the privatization policy of key government assets. Obasanjo would later accuse him of selling off the government assets to himself and his cronies. Both leaders fell apart, with Obasanjo attempting to remove his deputy. As a fallout, Atiku decamped to the defunct opposition Action Congress. He also got the court to affirm he could keep his seat despite his decampment. Atiku would later emerge the presidential candidate of the ACN in the 2007 presidential election, losing to President Umaru Yar’Adua.
