Atiku fires off from Paris, Tinubu is overtly running on ‘self-entitlement’ ticket
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
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“Nigerians watched with utter dismay as Tinubu, as usual, avoided questions and discussions on critical and imperative national issues, which confirms that he is in the presidential race for reasons other than the wellbeing of Nigerians.”
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Atiku Abubakar currently in Paris – some say for medical treatment, some for business – has fired off another shot at Bola Tinubu, insisting the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate cannot be trusted with power in Aso Rock.
After previously saying Tinubu was “dazed by the resounding presentation” of his (Atiku’s) campaign, the latest take of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is that Tinubu has overtly selfish motives.
Atiku released the salvo through his campaign spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan, saying Tinubu has a history of persistent self-centered assertions, haughty claims, annexation, and brazen entitlement messaging.
It is clear, Atiku argued in a statement he issued through Ologbondiyan, that Tinubu is driven by the lust to appropriate Nigeria as his personal estate and not for the national interest.
“Nigerians watched with utter dismay as Tinubu, as usual, avoided questions and discussions on critical and imperative national issues, which confirms that he is in the Presidential race for reasons other than the wellbeing of Nigerians,” the statement said.
“The APC presidential candidate has not been forthcoming on issues of transparency, accountability and answerability in government, devolution of power, state police, federal character and other key issues that will enhance democratic tenets for the benefit of Nigerians; a development that further confirms a selfish intention against the inclusive interest of our nation.
“Perhaps this explains why the APC presidential candidate has not composed a campaign organisation; a foretaste of exclusionist agenda.”
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Tinubu’s economic agenda
“Even his [Tinubu’s] proposed economic policies were generalised without addressing the specific problems of galloping inflation and its attendant unbearable rising costs, unemployment, high interest rates and the abysmally low purchasing power of Nigerians,” the statement added, per Vanguard.
“Nigerians must therefore resist such tendencies as any government built on what the APC presidential candidate ostensibly represents will amount to creating a fiefdom for a self-conceited ruler over our nation.
Never in our national history have Nigerians seen a politician with this level of self-entitlement.
“It is laughable that since he became the APC presidential candidate, Tinubu has sought for endorsement under every guise forgetting that 2023 election is a referendum against the mass failures of the APC in governance.”