Buhari’s corruption attack on Atiku mere illusion – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO) said President Muhammadu Buhari’s corruption attack on its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is a sign of desperation and a mere illusion. It described as unfortunate, President Buhari’s resort to sponsoring fabrications and false allegations against Atiku Abubakar just because he is been overwhelmed by Atiku’s soaring popularity and acceptance by Nigerians as their next President, come 2019. The party remind President Buhari, who has been unleashing his aides to attack Atiku Abubakar that the PDP Presidential candidate has never been charged, indicted nor convicted for any act of corruption by any competent authority whatsoever. PPCO dpokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said, President Buhari has been in office for almost four years and has never found anything incriminatory on Atiku Abubakar that can warrant his prosecution despite being hounded under the Buhari administration. He said “perhaps, Mr. President needs to be reminded that even the Chairman of his Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, after their detailed scrutiny, announced that they found no evidence of corruption against Atiku Abubakar and consequently absolved him of all allegations. “Furthermore, the United States Department of Justice had, in response to enquiry by a leading Nigerian newspaper in November of 2016, stated that, after scrutiny of public records, that there is no criminal case against Atiku Abubakar contrary to fabrications being promoted by the Buhari Presidency. “Nigerians can also recall that on December 22, 2014, President Buhari in praising Atiku Abubakar’s immense business acumen, through which he provided employment opportunities for thousands of Nigerians, described him as an “inspiration” and a man that has rendered ‘great service to Nigeria’. “Besides, because of President Buhari’s limited exposure, corrupt tendencies and manifest managerial incompetence, he is always fixated in his myopic creed that nobody can be successful except through corrupt enrichment. “It is therefore unfortunate that President Buhari has now resorted to sponsoring fabrications and false allegations against Atiku Abubakar just because he has become overwhelmed by Atiku’s soaring popularity and acceptance by Nigerians as their next President, come 2019”. He stated that the PDP Presidential campaign organisation aware that all the shenanigans being employed by the Buhari Presidency are designed to divert attention from the main issue of President Buhari’s woeful failure and the corruption in his Presidency. The PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, however, refused to be distracted from the referendum of the 2019 general election which is on the hunger, deprivation, insecurity, killings and bloodletting that have become the hallmark of the Buhari administration. It asked President Buhari to account for these sufferings because come February 16, 2019 Nigerians will register their protest against President Buhari’s misrule by casting their votes enmasse for Atiku Abubakar. Tunde Opalana, Abuja