The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has hit hard on Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Tinubu described Atiku as a bloody liar desperately seeking power for pecuniary benefits.

The former Governor of Lagos, in a statement made available to The Star on Sunday by Bayo Onanuga, Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, also dismissed the ‘recovery’ plan of Atiku and the PDP.

He urged Nigerians to ignore Atiku, saying the former vice president has nothing to recover in government.

Tinubu said: “Our advice to Nigerians is to ignore anything Atiku Abubakar says. He is a bloody liar and a desperate politician who should never be trusted.

“Atiku is not coming to recover Nigeria from anything, he is only coming to restore it back into his pocket and those of his cronies.”

The APC Presidential Candidate said Atiku’s refrain has been to tell the less discerning Nigerians that he is on a recovery and restoration mission in presenting himself to be elected.

According to him, “The question every Nigerian must ask him in pidgin is: Recover Wetin?

“Can the PDP ever be a recovery vehicle for our country, judging by its old record of service, when it spent $16 billion on power that only resulted in worsening darkness?

“Can the party ever be a recovery vehicle when it also midwifed the privatisation of power distribution to cronies, also leading to more darkness.

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“Now the nation’s hope for uninterrupted electricity lies on the $2.5 billion Nigeria-Siemens deal, initiated by the Buhari administration.

“We need to further ask whether the PDP is hoping to be a recovery vehicle for our armed forces, when during its stewardship, it diverted billions of dollars allocated for arms, into private pockets and marabouts. Our ill-equipped soldiers, were left to die as they faced guerrillas with superior weapons.”

Tinubu stated that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government has changed the misfortunes of the armed forces and boosted morale with modern weapons, fighter jets, warships and others.

According to him, “We ask again, can a party that cannot recover itself due to its internal implosion and crisis recover and rescue Nigeria? Let PDP rescue and recover itself and its abandoned national secretariat first. After raising over N20 billion to build a national party office, PDP and its leaders plundered the money the same way they plundered our country.”

Tinubu also faulted Atiku on his plan to sell the refineries.

“A pointer that this former vice president has not changed in his character as portrayed by Obasanjo was his promise to sell the newly commercialised NNPC Ltd and all its assets and subsidiaries for just $10 billion. Even before inviting bids, he had already undervalued the oil conglomerate, the way he undervalued Nigerian companies he was asked to sell, under the abused privatisation programme of the Obasanjo administration.

“Nigerians will remember that he made a similar promise in 2019, saying he would sell the NNPC to his friends and cronies. Surely, he retains the same mindset, though he has changed the terminology to privatisation,” he said.

The Star