2023: Atiku Once Confessed That He Was The One Behind The Electoral Assault On AD – APC Makes Heavy Allegation

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has on Sunday night accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, and his campaign team of chasing shadows.

This is coming after an allegation raised by Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu.

Naija News recalls that Shaibu accused the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, of having ‘many things’ to hide by evading debates, non-partisan town hall meetings and live interviews.”

He also claimed that the former Lagos Governor life was built on lies hence his reason for always running from public debates.

Reacting to the allegations, the APC issued a statement in Abuja on Sunday by the Director of Media and Publicity for Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga.

The statement read, “Our attention has been drawn to a statement by one Phrank Shaibu, an Atiku Abubakar special media assistant, whose specialty appears to be muckraking.

“In another puerile move, Shuaibu challenged our candidate to give his full name and went on a journey of fantasy about his early education and parentage, matters already thrown into the dustbin decades ago.

“We were not surprised that the desperate Atiku camp, faced with mounting setbacks in its campaign, will engage in another round of mudslinging after it failed to make any capital over its amplified allegation of drug dealing against our candidate.

“This latest allegation, we must say is another attempt at shadowboxing. Having failed to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians on its 16 years of infamous, criminal sabotage of our fatherland, in which Atiku as the overseer of the privatisation of our national assets programme and shortchanged our people.”

Speaking further, the APC argued that the PDP had realized that Tinubu’s victory at the polls is unavoidable hence the need to carry out a character assassination.

Continuing, the APC campaign director disclosed that if the opposition PDP is willing to delve into its records, it would realize that the same campaign of calumny was its stock in trade at the Lagos governorship poll in 2003.

Onanuga insisted that no amount of mudslinging campaign would bring down the APC flag bearer.

“It is unfortunate that the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar have chosen to revive a dead allegation, knowing that this election is again slipping away.

“Atiku, who once confessed he was the mastermind of the electoral assault by the PDP against the Alliance for Democracy in the 2003 election in the South West, is shamelessly back at his game, showing no contrition that the courts overturned the rigged victories.

“We however sympathise with Atiku and his mudslinging agents. We know why they are lashing at every straw available. They are seized with fear that the election is once again lost.

“With the massive turnout of the Nigerian people to welcome our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Kaduna, Minna, Abuja and other parts of Nigeria in the last one week, it is obvious that they are running after a train that has left the station.

“The Constitution of the Republic is obvious on the rights of a citizen to contest for president. Our candidate has fulfilled those conditions. The Independent National Electoral Commission, the impartial umpire has affirmed that he is qualified to run,” he added.