.Faults President’s claims at Uyo campaign rally
Atiku
The PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year message in which the President said the 2019 election should not be a do-or-die affair.
Reacting to the President’s message in Abuja, the former Vice President said leaders should lead by example by preaching peace at all times.
Atiku Abubakar, however, notes that it is not enough for the President to condemn do-or-die politics if he cannot control the activities of overzealous aides, including the country’s security chiefs, especially the Inspector General of Police whose activities lately gives him away as a partisan player in negation of his constitutional role.
Atiku also counsels President Buhari to follow the example of former President Goodluck Jonathan, who, in 2015, walked the talk of the 2015 elections not being worth the blood of any Nigerian.
Similarly, Atiku urged Buhari to stop making a mockery of figures and reality following the President’s claims at the beginning of his campaign in Uyo that has fulfilled his campaign promises in the areas of security and job creation
According to Atiku, 90 million Nigerians are now living in extreme poverty
“On Friday December 28, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari began his nationwide campaign rallies with a zonal rally in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and at that event the President proclaimed that he had ‘fulfilled (his) promises to Nigeria’, he said, adding:
“Ironically, a day before the President made that statement, it was revealed that the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty had increased from 87 million to 90 million in just 4 months. Going by that sharp rate of increase, the whole country will be in extreme poverty if Nigerians make the mistake of re-electing Buhari.
“Except the President made a vow to impoverish Nigerians, it is hard to see how he could have fulfilled his promises with such pervasive poverty and hunger in the land.
“This is even as the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics revealed a week to the President’s unfortunate statement that unemployment had doubled from the 14 per cent he met it in May 2015 to 23.1 per cent in December of 2018.
“But the most blatant insult from the President was his assertion at Uyo that “We have defeated Boko Haram”. It was most insensitive of the President to have said such on a day that foreign and domestic media reported the entrapment of our gallant troops by Boko Haram/ISWAP in Baga, with as much as 700 hundred reported missing.
Even more indicting is the statement from the US based International Strategic Studies Association, which revealed that the Boko Haram insurgency was lingering due to the massive corruption around President Muhammadu Buhari. (https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/12/30/report-corruption-in-military-responsible-for-faltering-bharam-war/)
How would those soldiers feel, how would their families feel, how would their colleagues in the barracks feel when they are facing a life and death situation and their commander-in-chief is impervious to reality?
On the call by the CUPP for Presidential candidates to undergo mental test to find their fitness for the plum job Atiku declared he is prepared to undergo such test and challenges President Muhammadu Buhari to accept CUPP’s challenge.
And, for the umpteenth time, we call on President Muhammadu Buhari to come clean on the faceless people behind Keystone Bank and Etisalat. Nigerians deserve to know how people who used to beg for ₦2000 transport money, as revealed by Buhari’s right hand man, Buba Galadima, are now suddenly wealthy enough to acquire multi billion dollar investments.
