2023: Apologise, Renounce Ambition, Tinubu Tells Atiku

As the race to Aso Rock 2023 increases, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has called on the presidential candidate of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar to apologise to Nigerians over his roles during the Olusegun Obansanjo’s presidency in Nigeria.

Tinubu said it is unbelievable for Atiku to be seeking Nigerians votes having allegedly defrauded the country under president Obasanjo.

The APC cheiftain alleges that ” Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (who happens to be the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party) during his tenure as Vice-President of Nigeria between 1999 and 2007, colluded with his then boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to fleece the country and steal public funds using what he termed “Special Purpose Vehicles” (SPVs).”

” Those SPVs were companies Atiku admittedly registered upon assumption of office as Vice-President (with the approval of President Olusegun Obasanjo) using “trusted allies” as shareholders and Directors. The purpose was to divert government contracts to these companies as “consultants” and then paid monies into these companies and used those monies to fund the PDP and their private businesses and family activities. We can all vividly recall that during that tenure, both President Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar built the Bells University and American University respectively. Now, we know from where the funds came.”

Tinubu, through his media handlers, addressed a world press conference in Abuja on Monday on various reasons why the PDP presidential candidate should not be allowed to govern Nigeria.

According to Tinubu’s media men, Dele Alake Special Adviser, Media, Communications and Public Affairs, Bayo Onanuga Director, Media and Publicity and Alhaji Idris Mohammed Director, Strategic Communications, Atiku Abubakar is not fir to lead Nigeria for the following reasons:

” (a) President Obasanjo and Atiku ran a criminal enterprise and an empire of fraud in Abuja at the same time Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was toiling very hard, dutifully and meticulously laying the foundation to rebuild Lagos State.”

” (b) That following these revelations, it becomes clear that Atiku Abubakar has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO CAMPAIGN ON AGAIN AS THE PERIOD OF 1999 – 2007 that he always relies on can now be described by Nigerians as the “SPV years” when they ran Nigeria aground.”

” (c) That whilst President Obasanjo and Atiku deprived the good people of Lagos State their Local Government monthly allocations even after the Supreme Court ordered the release of the funds, they were busy stealing the nation’s resources by stealth in Abuja.”

” (d) That the real, dark reason for the seemingly irreconcilable quarrel between President Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar is disagreement over monies they both stole in the ‘SPV’ accounts at that time.”