Electing Tinubu After Buhari Is Moving Fom Frying Pan Into Fire – Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said it will be a very big mistake if his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu, is elected as the next President.

In a statement on Sunday by his media aide, Phrank Shaibu, the former Vice President said voting for Tinubu would mean a transition from frying pan into the fire.

Atiku called on Nigerians not to vote for the APC flagbearer, adding that Nigerians must not be deceived by Tinubu’s message of renewed hope.

The PDP standard bearer described the campaign message of the former Governor of Lagos State as hopelessness in disguise.

He said: “It is one week to the election, and expectedly, campaigns have reached fever pitch. But amid the excitement and tension, voters must guard their hearts jealously, as the ruling APC will try to use every subterfuge and stratagem in its manual to deceive them once more. These last days are similar to the end time predicted in the Holy Books.

“Nigerians must not let themselves be deceived by this ‘corn-man’ selling renewed hopelessness disguised as renewed hope. Your hope will be stolen from you if he is allowed to govern Nigeria. That, indeed, will be a state of hopelessness – hell on earth, frying pan to fire.”

Atiku said as part of an alleged grand deception, Tinubu, who started his campaign mid-last year with a promise to continue with President Muhammadu Buhari’s “impeccable legacy”, had in the last three weeks been promising to reverse them.

He asked Tinubu to make up his mind on whether he was running on Buhari’s legacy or running against it so as not to deceive innocent voters.

The statement added, “Tinubu says the petrol scarcity and the naira shortage are aimed at scuttling his ambition. Later, he and his acolytes said they were only voicing out against the policy out of sheer concern for the masses.
“These are people who never muttered a word when students spent 10 months at home in 2020 and eight months at home in 2022 due to unprecedented university lecturers’ strike.

“These are people that never criticised the president at the height of the insecurity when schoolchildren were being abducted almost on a daily basis and when the naira witnessed a free fall that led to a sharp increase in the price of goods.

“Someone needs to tell Tinubu and his band of APC governors to, please, give up this irritating ostentatious performance of moral propriety. They are not angry about the naira redesign because they love the masses. They are only angry that their plan to unleash bullion vans on poor Nigerians has been thwarted.”

Atiku alleged that should Tinubu become the president of Nigeria, he would turn the country into his personal fiefdom and make it a one-party state by muzzling the opposition, as he had done in Lagos State since 1999.

The PDP flagbearer added that his APC counterpart would also turn the National Assembly into his footstool and orchestrate the fall of the Fourth Republic.

He asserted, “Tinubu has turned Lagos State into his personal fiefdom by arrogating all powers to himself so much so that even the current governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, publicly refers to him as ‘my principal’, clear evidence that Tinubu is far above the constitutionally recognised authority in the state.

“It is through the instrumentality of the state House of Assembly that he successfully impeached two of his deputy governors – Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele and Femi Pedro. It was also through this subservient House that Tinubu passed the obnoxious governors’ pension law that would see him earn more allowances than a former president.

“He has also infiltrated and bastardised every facet of Lagos society, including transport unions, who openly extort money from transporters and shop owners with impunity because they have pledged their loyalty to him.”