The All Progressives Congress (APC) has told the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar to lick his political woun with dignity.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, while reacting to the press conference addressed by Atiku in a statement issued Thursday described his United States expedition as the last kick of of a rejected presidential aspirant.
He said that the desperation of the Atiku was unbecoming of a statesman who once occupied the second highest office in the land.
Moral wa of the opinion that the press conference addressed by Atiku lacked purpose and delivered nothing except the pitiful regurgitation of lies, mindless distortions and deliberate falsehood on his infantile obsession.
He noted that Atiku has thrown every decency, decorum, dignity and national respectability out the window on his purposeless judicial voyage of discovery to the United States in search of a magic wand for taking power against the will of the Nigerian electorate loudly expressed in last February’s presidential election.
The ruling party, however, condemned the perfidious road he has taken and the needless negative exposure of Nigeria and the institution of the Presidency in foreign land.
Morka said: “For several weeks now, Nigerians and the world have watched with incredulity Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s display of utter desperation in his failed bid to become the President of Nigeria.
“Earlier today (Thursday) he put his desperation in overdrive during his press conference where he addressed some of the issues in his appeal at the Supreme Court and bandying unproven charges against the President of Nigeria, His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a calculated attempt to shamelessly whip up public sentiments and inordinately pressure the Supreme Court.”
Morka said the ruling party believed Atiku should have known better than to demonstrate gross contempt of the highest court by making public comments on a matter that he has submitted to the court for adjudication.
“Atiku holds the unenviable title of Nigeria’s most prolific election loser and longest running presidential candidate in history, saying the APC saw his recent US fishing expedition as the last kick of a roundly rejected presidential aspirant.
“We want to urge former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to graciously accept his defeat and quietly lick his political wound with some dignity. Nigerians rejected him at the polls, and he cannot get by subterfuge what he failed to get through the ballot box.”
Morka noted that for the record, the APC wished to provide some clarity on the matter of the deposition of Mr. Caleb Westberg, the Registrar of Chicago State University, last Tuesday under oath at the Chicago office of Atiku’s lawyer, Angela Liu, to save unsuspecting Nigerians from barrage of untruths, distortions and campaign of misinformation being dished out by Atiku and his PDP
He insisted that Westberg was unmistaken and unambiguous in his deposition as to the fact that Tinubu graduated with honours from Chicago State University.
