Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has cautioned the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in opposition to worrying about his political decisions, stressing that it must be extra involved concerning the true id and age of its leaders.
Atiku mentioned the APC in Lagos State confirmed hypocrisy, selective amnesia, and mental laziness by mocking him over his determination to formally be a part of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
In an announcement by his Senior Particular Assistant on Public Communication, Atiku insisted that his political relevance just isn’t in query.
Based on Atiku: “The eye of the Atiku Media Workplace has been drawn to yet one more hole, ill-considered assertion issued by the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), whereby its spokesman, Seye Oladejo, tried to mock former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for becoming a member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). As ordinary, the Lagos APC displayed its trademark hypocrisy, selective amnesia, and mental laziness.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Atiku Abubakar’s political journey is public, clear, and totally documented. His age is understood, his dad and mom are recognized, his academic data are intact, and his public life might be traced from childhood to nationwide prominence with out the necessity for forensic consultants, personal investigators, or sworn affidavits to reconcile conflicting identities.
“This already locations him miles forward of their paymaster who—by all affordable public proof—is properly previous 90, but insists on clinging to energy and is already scheming for a second time period. If Atiku, a far more healthy, mentally sharper, and globally revered statesman, is “too previous” to aspire at 79, then what will we name a visibly frail chief whose true age stays one of many nation’s best-kept mysteries?
“The APC can not, on one hand, allow a person who has switched names, ages, origins, and academic histories, but alternatively assault Atiku for making strategic political strikes inside a democratic system. Celebration mobility just isn’t against the law; id fraud is.
“Atiku’s determination to collaborate with the ADC is pushed by conviction, nation-building, and a shared democratic imaginative and prescient—not desperation. Solely these accustomed to treating political events as personal estates will discover such collaboration complicated.”
He charged the Lagos APC to cease pretending to be involved about Nigeria’s future, noting that their actual worry is straightforward and comprehensible.
The assertion added: “Atiku Abubakar stays the only most formidable, skilled, and ready chief within the nation as we speak. His ethical stamina, political readability, and nationwide acceptance proceed to reveal the vacancy of the APC’s propaganda and the illegitimacy of the regime they serve.”
He mentioned If the APC is in search of a person outlined by “restlessness, panic, and desperation,” they needn’t look far.
“He’s within the Villa—struggling to control, struggling to seem coherent, and struggling to persuade Nigerians that he’s the age he claims to be.
“Fairly than issuing unintelligent statements, the Lagos APC ought to direct its power towards explaining the collapsing economic system, the insecurity consuming the nation, the hardship imposed on residents, and the human struggling that has develop into the lasting legacy of their celebration,” he added.
