By Don Silas A spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Momodu, has dismissed claims that hi...
By Don Silas
A spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential
Campaign Council, Dele Momodu, has dismissed claims that his party’s
presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would sell Nigeria to his friends if
elected into office.
Momodu spoke while fielding questions on Arise TV’s Morning
Show on Thursday.
Momodu said: “On the issue that he would sell Nigeria to his
friends, it is part of the ignorance that we find in the political cell in
Nigeria; ignorance because today every one of the presidential candidates is
talking about privatisation.
“When he [Atiku] said [it] in 2019, they attacked him. So
that is the difference, and that is why today it is clear you can see all the
adverts on the front page of the newspaper. Today, it is Atiku Abubakar,
[whose] time has come.
“He has matured from that 1993 thirty years ago when he
competed against Chief Moshood Abiola and Baba Gana and he was humble enough to
step down for Chief MKO Abiola; he was supposed to be a running mate to Abiola,
but he didn’t get it, he went home.”
Stressing that Atiku is the kind of leader that Nigeria
needs, Momodu claimed: “All the nations of the world are already meeting in
Atiku’s house in Abuja, he is discussing with them. He has said that before,
[that] one week after he has been announced and he takes power, he would be
able to announce his cabinet, it would be a government of national unity.”
Momodu added: “He is the only one who is ready from day one.
The others are busy fighting; if they are not fighting the leadership of their
own political party are, they are busy telling lies and all these high polity
theories they have never put to practice.”
This is coming less than a week after a spokesperson for the
Tinubu, Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Adamu Garba, insisted that
Atiku plans to sell national assets to himself if elected into office.
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