The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the press conference addressed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar lacked purpose and delivered nothing except the pitiful regurgitation of lies.
Atiku had earlier on Thurday in a world press conference over the discovery of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Chicago State University (CSU) record, said that the soul of late legal icon, Gani Fawehinmi, can now rest in peace.
He recalled that 23 years ago, Gani Fawehinmi began the process of unravelling the mystery surrounding Tinubu’s educational claim in Chicago.
Reacting to Atiku’s statement, the ruling party said the former Vice President’s press conference lacked purpose and delivered nothing except the pitiful regurgitation of lies, mindless distortions and deliberate falsehood on his infantile obsession with the academic record of Tinubu.
APC in a statement signed by its National Publicity secretary, Felix Morka noted that Nigerians and the world have watched with incredulity Alhaji Atiku’s display of utter desperation in his failed bid to become the President of Nigeria.
The statement titled: “Yet again, Atiku Abubakar beats his tattered drum of shame” said
the presidential candidate of the PDP put his desperation in overdrive where he addressed some of the issues in his appeal at the Supreme Court and bandying unproven charges against the President Tinubu of Nigeria, in a calculated attempt to shamelessly whip up public sentiments and inordinately pressure the Supreme Court.
The statement reads: “We believe Alhaji Atiku Abubakar 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.
“The major takeaway from his Yar’Adua Centre show, especially at 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.
“In desperation, unbecoming of a statesman who once occupied the second highest office in the land, the PDP candidate in the last election 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.
“Alhaji 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 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.
“Just for the record, we wish 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
“Mr. Westberg was unmistaken and unambiguous in his deposition as to the fact that President Bola Tinubu graduated with honours from Chicago State University.”
The party urged former Vice President 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.
“Nigerians validly elected President Tinubu to revamp our economy, restore security, create jobs, provide transformative infrastructure, improve electricity supply and enhance the living conditions of the masses.”
