APC attacks Atiku, advises him to quit politics before he’s kicked out
By Adeola Atanda
The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Lagos State, has said that the accusation that the party brought about the “insecurity” and “hunger” in the country is “the latest delusional outburst” from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The chapter said that, instead, the Peoples Democratic Party — of which Atiku was one of its chieftains until his recent defection — is the harbinger of the allegations he made.
The party said Atiku’s political record, which reads like “a crime scene”, is replete with aggrandisement occasioned through the alleged underhanded sale of national assets.
The former vice president, until his epic fallout with then president Olusegun Obasanjo, headed the National Council on Privatisation, saddled with the selling of some national assets.
For this alleged role, the APC labelled Atiku as “the grand architect of Nigeria’s economic wreckage”.
“This is the same Atiku who personally supervised the infamous national assets auction, where Nigeria’s collective wealth was sold to himself, his friends, and faceless cronies through a scandalous privatization bazaar,” the APC said.
“Factories died. Jobs disappeared. Industries collapsed. And today, the same man wants to pretend he played no role? This is not just hypocrisy – it is legendary audacity,” the ruling party stated.
On the insecurity situation, APC stated that “Boko Haram grew from a fringe sect into a national terror under PDP watch”, while “corruption was a state religion between 1999 and 2015.” The party further alleged that the PDP-led government “squandered” oil wealth and “multiplied poverty”, vandalising the economy with “reckless abandon.”
“This is a man who has contested for president since the era of black-and-white television, yet has nothing meaningful to show for his long public career except controversies, contradictions, and comical political migrations.
“At 80, Atiku still thinks Nigerians are forgetful enough to swallow his self-absolving fairy tales.”
“Atiku should vow out before history throws him out. A man rejected at the polls, rejected by his state, rejected by his party, and rejected by time should embrace silence,” the party added.
