The All Progressives Congress (APC) has chastised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for some of his comments at a world press conference on President Bola Tinubu’s certificate scandal on Thursday.
Atiku requested the conference in response to the Chicago State University’s deposition regarding Tinubu’s diploma from the university in 1979.
According to the deposition, President Tinubu did graduate from the university, as he claimed.
The former vice president and PDP presidential contender for 2023 said he would not back down from the matter until the Supreme Court issued its final decision.
The APC, however, said in a statement on Thursday that the press conference served no purpose and delivered nothing “except the pitiful regurgitation of lies, mindless distortions, and deliberate falsehood on his infantile obsession with the academic record of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The party observed in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, that “for several weeks now, Nigerians and the world have watched with incredulity Atiku’s display of utter desperation in his failed bid to become President of Nigeria.”
According to the statement, the former vice president went into overdrive during his press conference, addressing some of the issues in his Supreme Court appeal and bandying unproven charges against Nigeria’s President, His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a calculated attempt to shamelessly whip up public sentiments and put undue pressure on the Supreme Court.
“The major takeaway from his Yar’Adua Centre show, especially during question time, was that Atiku harbours deep animosity towards Tinubu whom he believes was responsible for his electoral woes in 2007, 2015, 2019 and this year,” a part of the statement added.
The statement claimed that during his pointless judicial journey of discovery to the United States in search of a magic wand for seizing power against the loudly expressed will of the Nigerian electorate during last February’s presidential election, Atiku threw every shred of decency, decorum, dignity, and national respectability out the window.
“Atiku Abubakar holds the unenviable title of Nigeria’s most prolific election loser and longest-running presidential candidate in history, and we see his recent US fishing expedition as the last kick of a roundly rejected presidential aspirant.
“While we sympathise with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for spending a lifetime pursuing an unrealised dream, we strongly condemn the perfidious road he has taken and the needless negative exposure of Nigeria and the institution of the Presidency in foreign land,” the statement noted.
