The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of being blinded by political envy over the achievements of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
The accusation is contained in a statement posted yesterday by APC National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka on his X (formerly Twitter).
The statement is a reaction to Atiku’s labeling of Tinubu’s policies as “trial and error.”
Morka argued that the former vice-president’s comments were self-serving and an attempt to undermine the Tinubu administration’s bold and transformative initiatives.
The post partly reads: “The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has not let up on his vilipending of the outstanding first-year record of achievements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
“In his latest statement, Atiku claimed that Mr. President was not ready for reforms, dismissing his policies as ‘trial and error.’
“Atiku’s self-serving efforts to minimise the bold, genuine, and metamorphic policies and interventions of the present administration only smacks of primordial political envy and crass desperation for the power that Nigerians have so wisely denied him.
“The former Vice President lives in an alternate reality of prejudice and unpatriotic desire for Nigeria’s failure so he may scavenge his way to an even more elusive Presidency.
“Opposition’s efforts to burden the administration with ceaseless, contrived, unjustified, and diversionary reproval are grossly miscalculated and misled. The sheer length of Atiku’s prevaricating epistle of a statement is a testament to the expanse of the administration’s policy and programme uptake in 365 short days.’
“President Bola Tinubu remains unshakable in his commitment to building concrete blocks of progress and greatness for Nigeria. While Atiku and his band of mudslingers idle away, the President will continue, unstoppably, to deliver high-grade infrastructure not only in our nation’s capital, Abuja, but all around the country.”
Also in Abuja, the PDP said the ‘’last year under the current APC administration is the most challenging in Nigeria’s history since the Civil War.’’
It, therefore, enjoined the Tinubu administration to emphasize good governance instead of ‘’inflicting pain and misery on Nigerians’’ through ‘’not well thought-out ’’ policies.
