The Diaspora Directorate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Councils, PCC, has said that when it comes to leadership indices, the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is in a class of his own.
Insisting that the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is no where near Tinubu’s leadership acumen and credentials, the Diaspora Directorate of the APC PCC, in a statement by its Head, Media and Publicity, Femi Odere, on Tuesday in Abuja and made available to compassNG, said, “Our attention has been drawn to another attempt, as his wont, of the PDP presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to reap where he doesn’t always sow with his latest pre-recorded video message admonishing President Muhamadu Buhari to extend the now extended deadline of the old Nigerian currencies as legal tender.
“It would be recalled that the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Bola Tinubu, first sounded the alarm during his Abeokuta, Ogun State campaign rally on the negative socio-economic impact of the ill-advised Tuesday, January 31, 2023 deadline by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor Godwin Emefiele, for the acceptance of the old currencies when the new notes are yet to be in full circulation.
“It would also be recalled that no sooner had this seer of how the country’s major policy decisions on the lives of the common Nigerian public would pan out, than Atiku Abubakar went to town in his mockery of Tinubu for pointing out the dangers in this hasty, shortsighted, not-well-thought-out policy decision of the Central Bank.
“Atiku Abubakar, perhaps lacking the presence of mind to read the country’s socio-economic and political tea leaves or deliberately mischievous (or both), tried unsuccessfully to create a wedge between the APC presidential candidate and President Buhari in his denouncement of Tinubu’s warnings in Abeokuta.”
Osere added that “as is wont of a strategic thinker, who believes in the strength of his own conviction and that the PDP, through its apologists in the Central Bank and the Presidency, were trying to lead the President astray, led a powerful delegation to his Daura redoubt with more powerful and superior arguments as to why the January 31st deadline was unrealistic and full of bobby traps for his government.”
He added further that when Atiku Abubakar got wind of the imminent extension of the deadline through Tinubu’s efforts and that of other highly patriotic Nigerian leaders, that was when Dino Melaye, “one of his clowns in their political circus, held a video camera for the Wazirin Adamawa, from which his glib appeal to the President was issued.”
He continued, “It’s a shame that the former vice president is once again, trying to take credit for the President’s extension of the deadline that, to all intents and purposes, has stopped their evil agenda dead in its track.
“We have said this before, and it bears repeating here once more, that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is both physically and mentally tired to preside over the affairs of this country.
“Atiku is physically tired because he’s yet to do a third of the criss-crossing that has been done by the APC presidential candidate through campaigns and meetings with critical stakeholders. He’s mentally vacuous because of his intellectual impediment to understand governance in a 21st century world.
“All Atiku now want is the continuation of stupendous wealth for his children, as he already admitted was his reason for running for President because of the pressure from them, to which some of his children also attested.
“Asiwaju Tinubu is simply not Alhaji Abubakar’s mate in leadership credentials. Nigerians must retire him from politics on Saturday, February 25th, for his own good as he’s no longer capable of knowing when to say when.
“Tinubu leads while Atiku follows.”
