‘Leopard Cannot Change Its Skin’, Buhari’s Campaign Attacks Atiku

Atiku and Buhari

The Presidency and the Buhari Campaign Organization (BCO) on Sunday propelled a fierce assault on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) applicant Atiku Abubakar, saying he is "brimming with validity emergencies". 

Representative of the BCO, Festus Keyamo and Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Laureta Onochie in partitioned articulations discharged shots on Atiku, charging monetisation of the procedure at the PDP tradition in Port Harcourt. 

Keyamo reminded the previous Vice President and Nigerians that amid the races, Nigerians would need to choose a competitor with a history brimming with validity emergencies, cursing covers defilement both home and abroad and another applicant, (the occupant President) with an immaculate record in broad daylight benefit." 

The announcement stated: "We wish to salute His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on his rise as the applicant of the PDP in regard of the inevitable 2019 Presidential Election. 

"Be that as it may, we note with intrigue every one of the reports in the media as to monstrous vote-purchasing at the PDP primaries (particularly with outside money). We balance this with the discourse of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2014 APC Convention when he said as pursues: 

"I have dependably served Nigeria to the best of my capacity. I have constantly attempted to offer more to the country than it has given me. This is the standard of administration that has guided my open life. In this way, I am not a rich individual. I can't give you a fistful of dollars or naira to buy your help. Regardless of whether I might, I be able to would not do as such. The destiny of this country isn't available to be purchased." 

"There were likewise media reports in the 2014 APC National Convention that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar openly utilized a similar technique for enormous vote-purchasing in outside money, yet he came a removed third. Till date, he has not denied those media reports. The case hence that the procedure that delivered him now as an applicant of the PDP was free, reasonable and straightforward is suspect. 

"It is along these lines clear that going into this race, the issues that will shake the brains of Nigerians most would be revolved around the validity of the competitor of the resistance and the sort of qualities he brings into our governmental issues. 

"Nigerians would ask themselves whether he can be trusted with our national assets with this proclivity for "dollarising" the political field, subsequently taking us back to the distorted qualities from which President Buhari is attempting to remove the country. One miracles what such a hopeful would do with open assets. 

"Nigerians would likewise note with intrigue the decision of Atiku's previous manager when he was Vice President on his believability and uprightness, calling him unprintable names at various events. Nigerians would take note of that in these events, Atiku Abubakar had never protected these charges against him by his previous supervisor, however keeps on pursuing his help and collaboration.