Atiku berates Tinubu for just speaking up eight years into Buhari’s failure
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Bola Tinubu is a hypocrite for criticising Muhammadu Buhari to distance himself from the failure of the President whose policies he had stoutly defended since 2015, says Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
“Today, they moved the exchange rate from N200 to N800. If they had repaired it, if they had arrested this, we wouldn’t be where we are today, we would be greater,” Tinubu said in his jibe at Buhari in Calabar on 31 January.
“They don’t know the way, they don’t know how to think, they don’t know how to do it.”
Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, had lamented days earlier in Abeokuta that government officials instigated the scarcity of fuel and new naira notes to wreck his Villa run on the ticket of the ruling party.
Atiku dismissed Tinubu’s criticism of Buhari and his government as hogwash to wash his hands off the afflictions Buhari has inflicted on Nigerians in the past seven years.
“Tinubu has disingenuously been criticising President Buhari, trying to extricate himself from the failures of the APC which he had vigorously defended in the last eight years.
“Nigerians must not be deceived by this charlatan who is now posing to be on the side of the masses,” Atiku warned in a statement he issued through his Media Aide Phrank Shaibu.
“It is funny that Tinubu, who proudly held the position of national leader of the APC for the last eight years, could throw the President under the bus in his failed and desperate quest for power.”
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Why is Tinubu now speaking up?
“Tinubu is the APC, mind, soul and body. He was the national leader of the party even before Buhari became the presidential candidate. Is it possible for a snail to deny its own shell?
“Tinubu needs to give up this rascally act and take ownership of the failure of his party in the last eight years. His latest outburst is nothing but diversionary tactics,” Shaibu said, per reporting by The PUNCH.
“This is the sort of person Tinubu is. He is a user who throws his friends under the bus when things get tough.”
“Nigerians have been facing petrol scarcity for nearly a year. Why is Tinubu just speaking about it now that elections are a few days away?
“Why is Tinubu just attacking Buhari’s policies, many of which have been in place for years?
“In any case, the previous Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, said at the 65th Tinubu symposium on March 28, 2017 that it was Tinubu’s economic policy that the Buhari regime was using. So, why is Tinubu all of a sudden trying to distance himself from his own failed policy?”
“Ahmad Lawan, whom Tinubu openly supported, is the current Senate President and godson, Femi Gbajabiamila is the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“Both of them, who are proud rubber stamps, have been approving all of Buhari’s loans without question which further weakened the currency. Where was Tinubu when this was happening?
“Yemi Osinbajo, who was Tinubu’s commissioner for eight years, also headed Buhari’s economic team and chaired the National Economic Council by virtue of his position as Vice-President.
“Where was Tinubu when policies were being implemented? Why didn’t he speak up?”