Naira Scarcity: You’re A Desperate, Chameleonic Politician – APC Campaign Fires Atiku

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has described the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, as a desperate and chameleonic politician.

Naija News reports that the Council said the desperation of the former Vice President to become the next President has made him become insensitive to the plight of Nigerians.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, stated this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

Onanuga regretted that with just five days to the presidential election, Atiku wanted to cash in on the mood of the country with what he termed the “latest faux empathy” of the former vice president.

He recalled that Atiku had earlier asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) not to shift the deadline for the naira swap policy and once described the suffering Nigerians are going through as some “little inconvenience”.

Onanuga said in his “inconsistencies and unreliability, Atiku has advanced several contradictory positions, in the fruitless hope of gaining a political advantage” from the naira scarcity.

The APC chieftain said Atiku and his party first applauded the CBN policy when they initially thought it was a policy deliberately designed to stop Tinubu from becoming the next elected president of Nigeria.

He, therefore, asked Nigerians to reject Atiku for his inconsistencies, noting that a “man like the PDP candidate with no strong conviction and strength of character cannot offer the kind of leadership our country needs.”

The statement reads “It is generally a bad time for poor and hapless Nigerians as currency scarcity has become the norm. The chameleonic politician forgot that he once described the suffering our people are going through as some ‘little inconvenience”.

“We recognize Atiku’s desperation to be president and like a chameleon, this unprincipled and unstable politician will change positions on any issue as long as he thinks it will help his perennial ambition.

“Nigeria needs a consistent and steady leader who will stand firm and upright when it is convenient and when it is not convenient. Asiwaju Tinubu is that kind of leader and he has demonstrated that by his principled stand on the current crisis. He has also offered a six-point solution to get the country out of the current morass.

“Atiku called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the CBN governor to ensure strict implementation of the policy and the deadline of 31 January because, in his and party’s short-sightedness and gross miscalculation, Tinubu was the prime target.

“Atiku’s position exploded on his face when the unintended consequences of the CBN policy manifested in its full ramifications and crippled the entire populace. He capitulated and sought to claim some credit by asking the CBN to ‘slightly shift’ the deadline of 31 January 2023.

“The CBN and the FG to which Atiku and his party have suddenly become the cheerleaders listened to all the voices of reason and shifted the deadline for the currency swap till 10 February.

“Amid the widespread misery and the currency scarcity that the Naira swap policy created for Nigerians, Atiku’s position proved once again an egregious miscalculation and clearly anti-people.”