The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the desperation of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar is unbecoming of a statesman, who has once occupied the second highest office in the country..
The National Publicity Secretary of APC, Felix Morka, in a statement issued Thursday, said that Atiku had thrown every decency, decorum, dignity and national respectability out the window on his purposeless judicial voyage of discovery to the United States in search of a magic wand for taking power against the will of the Nigerian electorate loudly expressed in last February’s presidential election.
The ruling PAC said that it was unfazed by the press conference addressed by the former Vice President.
According to Morka, “The press conference lacked purpose and delivered nothing except the pitiful regurgitation of lies, mindless distortions and deliberate falsehood on his infantile obsession with the academic record of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“For several weeks now, Nigerians and the world have watched with incredulity Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s display of utter desperation in his failed bid to become the President of Nigeria.
“Earlier today (Thursday) he put his desperation in overdrive during his press conference where he addressed some of the issues in his appeal at the Supreme Court and bandying unproven charges against the President of Nigeria, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a calculated attempt to shamelessly whip up public sentiments and inordinately pressure the Supreme Court.”
The APC Publicity Secretary said that the ruling party believes Atiku should have known better than to demonstrate gross contempt of the highest court by making public comments on a matter that he has submitted to the court for adjudication.
Morka maintained that it was obvious that Atiku harbours deep animosity towards Tinubu whom he believes was responsible for his electoral woes in 2007, 2015, 2019 and 2023.
“In desperation, unbecoming of a statesman who once occupied the second highest office in the land, the PDP candidate in the last election has thrown every decency, decorum, dignity and national respectability out the window on his purposeless judicial voyage of discovery to the United States in search of a magic wand for taking power against the will of the Nigerian electorate loudly expressed in last February’s presidential election.”
The party’s spokesperson stressed that Atiku holds the unenviable title of Nigeria’s most prolific election loser and longest running presidential candidate in history, saying that the APC saw his recent US fishing expedition as the last kick of a roundly rejected presidential aspirant.
Morka noted that the APC sympathized with Atiku for spending a lifetime pursuing an unrealized dream.
The ruling party, however, condemned the perfidious road he has taken and the needless negative exposure of Nigeria and the institution of the Presidency in foreign land.
Morka noted that for the record, the APC wished to provide some clarity on the matter of the deposition of Mr. Caleb Westberg, the Registrar of Chicago State University, last Tuesday under oath at the Chicago office of Atiku’s lawyer, Angela Liu, to save unsuspecting Nigerians from barrage of untruths, distortions and campaign of misinformation being dished out by Atiku and his PDP.
He insisted that Westberg was unmistaken and unambiguous in his deposition as to the fact that Tinubu graduated with honours from Chicago State University.
Morka pointed out that he also emphatically provided clear answers on all other issues raised.
”There is also no part of Mr. Westberg’s deposition where he said that the certificate President Bola Tinubu presented to INEC for his election is fake or was forged. All the insinuations and innuendos in this regard are pure mischief and should be disregarded.
By Adekunle Adegboyega
