Atiku’s Challenge: Tinubu Is Busy, Has Important Things To Attend To – APC

The All Progressives Congress and its allied groups on Sunday said the APC presidential candidate,  Bola Tinubu, would defeat his Peoples Democratic Party’s counterpart, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, in any debate.

But the Peoples Democratic Party restated its challenge to Tinubu that he should subject himself to  an hour media  interview to test if he would be mentally present to do so.

The contention between the two leading candidates started when Atiku, in an interview with Arise TV on Friday, said he turned down Tinubu’s request to be his running mate in the 2007 presidential election because he was opposed  a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

In his response, Tinubu said he never lobbied to be Atiku’s running mate but was instead offered the ticket by the former Vice-President when they were members of the Action Congress which Atiku had joined after leaving the PDP.

Atiku’s spokesman, Paul Ibe, had in a statement on Saturday night challenged Tinubu to subject himself to an hour interview as Atiku did if he was mentally present and articulate to do so.

Commenting on the challenge, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, in an interview said Atiku could not defeat anybody in any debate, adding that he had nothing to offer.

Morka disclosed that  the APC presidential candidate was a very busy man who would prefer to rather attend to important matters associated with his campaign than listen to ‘’the rant of the opposition who has little or nothing to contribute positively.’’

This is even as Morka stated that Atiku was incapable of beating anybody.

He said, “Atiku is simply bluffing and incapable of defeating anybody. He has nothing to discuss or offer Nigerians. I don’t think anybody is taking Atiku seriously.

“But beyond just the debate, I expect more of deliberations on policy engagements and conversations.”