The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council chastised the All Progressives Congress vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday for his attack on the party’s standard bearer, Atiku Abubakar, reminding him (Shettima) that while he was governor of Borno State, the Boko Haram terrorist sect inflicted pains on Nigerians from which they are still recovering.
Shettima and APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu questioned Atiku’s ability to unite the country in Lagos on Tuesday, with Shettima specifically pledging to end the former vice president’s political career in 2023.
The PDP campaign council, in a statement signed by Dele Momodu, Director, Strategic Communications of the National Campaign Management Committee of the PDP campaign council, encouraged Shettima to take a deeper look at his party before finding holes in whatever may be wrong with the PDP.
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Momodu was also concerned about the APC and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s, apparent disregard for the democratic and voting rights of particular ethnic communities within their domains.
The statement read, “How can APC be expected to guarantee the safety of lives and properties when right under the watch of Alhaji Shettima as the governor of Borno State, Boko Haram became an intractable menace that Nigeria is yet to fully recover from till this day?
“We have watched in utter incredulity and amazement the boldfaced speech made yesterday (Tuesday) by the APC vice presidential candidate, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, at an event in Lagos. He alleged gleefully that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar cannot unite Nigeria when ‘he has not united his own political party.’
“It is our belief that Alhaji Shettima, in a moment of deliberate amnesia, must have tried to point fingers at the specks in another man’s eyes while studiously ignoring the giant logs in his own eyes.
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“The APC is in total disarray with prominent members of his party openly apologising to Nigerians for the unmitigated disaster it has foisted on Nigeria since 2015. This is one of the reasons APC members have been migrating in droves to PDP.
“Everything about APC and its candidates have been shrouded in secrecy and they are just unable to tell Nigerians the truth about anything. How can Nigerians be expected to place their faith in such mysterious characters?
“Alhaji Shettima alleged that Atiku Abubakar cannot be trusted with the economy of Nigeria. No heresy could be worse than this. Nigerians would want to know what businesses the APC candidates have managed personally and successfully except living outlandishly on government booty and largesse.”
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