Atiku Hits APC, Says Despite Crisis, PDP More Formidable, Credible

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Candidate, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has hit back at comments from the ruling party in which it mocked the opposition for its present post-convention crisis.

The Director, Media, and Publicity of the APC Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, had earlier on Friday, said that the 2023 presidential bid of Atiku had hit the rocks, based on the recent Economic Intelligence Unit report which stated that the APC Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, would win at the polls.

However, in a statement on Friday by Mazi Paul Ibe, Atiku’s media adviser, Atiku dismissed the ruling party and its presidential candidate as ones with burdens and baggage that has soiled their credibility ahead of the polls.

The statement read in part, “We shall be kind enough to remind the APC that when, in the next few days, campaigns begin in earnest, Nigerians will require answers to some weighty character questions about their candidate and rather than expend precious time on what is never their business, should use the remaining few days judiciously.

“Secondly, whatever is happening in the PDP is a conversation among leaders of the party and that, in itself, is a reflection of the PDP as a living and engaging political party. The conversation in the PDP is all about consensus building, which in itself is a major ingredient for peace and unity.

“The same, of course, cannot be said of the APC where what exists is at best graveyard peace. It is on record that in the seven years and more that the APC has been in power and with the attendant hardship that the party has foisted on the ordinary people of Nigeria, the candidate of the APC, former governor Bola Tinubu had not for one single time, stood on the side of the people.

“And, that is so for the obvious reason that the presidential candidate of the APC considers his poorly conceived presidential ambition more important than the adversity that his party has unleashed on a vast majority of Nigerians.

“We wish to remind the APC that its presidential candidate has to own the failures of the party in the last seven plus years. He should also know that Nigerians will reward their failure with nothing less than a resounding loss in the election.

“Atiku is a democrat to the core and that is evident in the way that he continues to carry on with the responsibility of ensuring that the PDP rescues Nigeria from the stranglehold of the APC in the next year’s general election”, the statement added.