Presidency: Tinubu, Atiku trade words over health, credibility status
…Worry about ex-VP’s health, credibility, not me, Tinubu tells Nigerians
…You’re unfit to hold office as President, Atiku/Okowa mocks APC ex-Lagos gov, say he is corruption personified
By Dapo Akinrefon, Omeiza Ajayi, LAGOS
Presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, traded words over their health condition and corruption-free status.
Tinubu assured Nigerians of his sound health and corruption-free status, saying Nigerians should, rather, worry about the PDP candidate.
Firing back, the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation lampooned the APC candidate over his failed attempt to impute illness on its Presidential Candidate.
Worry about ex-VP’s health, credibility, not mine, Tinubu tells Nigerians
Tinubu, in a statement, by the Director, Media and Publicity of his Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, Mr Bayo Onanuga, said Atiku must come clean on issues regarding his health and corruption allegations.
The statement reads: “It is time for Atiku Abubakar, the 76-year-old presidential candidate of the PDP to come clean over two issues clouding his campaign: his health status and his scandalous confession of how he colluded with his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to fleece the Nigerian treasury, using the special purpose vehicles after he became Vice-President in 1999.”
He said if Atiku has some modicum of honour, he ought to have stepped down from the race that he is bound to lose again, “following the release of his audio clip, in which he provides a vivid explanation of the modus operandi of his legendary corruption.”
Tinubu noted that so far, there has been no notable response from Atiku’s camp about the disturbing revelation, except for a futile attempt to disown the whistle-blower, Michael Achimugu, a media consultant to Atiku.
He, however, noted that Nigerians are appalled that Atiku and PDP are so shameless that they have shrugged off the bombshell.