President Muhammadu Buhari has released what he described as
indisputable facts about the presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Buhari, in a statement he entitled ‘When the thief is shouting thief:
the case of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’ and signed by the Director of
Strategic Communication of the Buhari Campaign Organization, Festus
Keyamo, was responding to the allegation of corruption against him by
the former Vice President.
A few days ago, the Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, called out President Muhammadu Buhari over certain “corrupt
practices” which the President allegedly condones in his government.
In the statement obtained by DAILY POST, the President said that
“after three days of publicly announcing that they have hard proof that
the President’s relations bought shares in Etisalat and Keystone Bank,
the PDP has not produced a single piece of paper, a document of any sort
to buttress the grave allegations it made.
Whilst we have repeatedly addressed each and every of the instances
cited by him to show the transparent nature of the government, it is
shocking that the Presidential candidate of the main opposition has
refused to issue a personal statement up till this minute clarifying in
details his record of crass corruption and abuse of office.
He is clearly taking Nigerians for a ride and hopes to distort the
ethical revolution in public office that Nigerians clearly desire to his
own philosophy of abusing public office to promote private interests.
By his subliminal messages, he wants Nigerians to accept that
becoming wealthy by abusing public office is not a bad thing after all.
With the avalanche of fake and unsubstantiated news released in the
last few days, it is now clear that PDP’s strategy in the run up to the
elections is to spread fake news and make wild allegations without any
proof against the President and the Vice President.
This is clearly to divert attention from the record of crass
corruption and abuse of office of their own candidate. Nigerians cannot
and should not be insulted by the PDP after 16 years of looting of the
nation, by now putting forward a man whose record of corruption they
very much acknowledge, but would rather we all overlook it.