Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, has stated that if his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, Bola Tinubu, gets elected as the next President, it will be a huge mistake.
According to a statement issued on Sunday by his media aide, Phrank Shaibu, voting for Tinubu would mean moving from the frying pan to the fire.
Atiku urged Nigerians not to vote for Tinubu, the APC’s flagbearer, saying they should not be misled by Tinubu’s rhetoric of newfound optimism.
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The PDP flag bearer called the campaign theme of the former Governor of Lagos State as pessimism 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 claimed that Tinubu, who began his campaign in mid-last year with a promise to preserve President Muhammadu Buhari’s “impeccable legacy,” had in the last three weeks promised to reverse them as part of an alleged big deceit.
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He asked Tinubu to decide whether he was running on Buhari’s legacy or against it in order not to mislead 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.”
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Atiku claimed that if Tinubu were elected president of Nigeria, he would transform the country into his own fiefdom and turn it into a one-party state by silencing the opposition, as he had done in Lagos State since 1999.
The PDP presidential candidate went on to say that his APC opponent would use the National Assembly as a footstool and orchestrate the destruction 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.
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“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.”
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