According to his aide Paul Ibe, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not running for president in the 2023 elections in order to engage in drug trafficking, money laundering, forgery, or perjury.
Ibe, who asserted that those are the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate Ahmed Tinubu’s (APC) home territory, stated that Abubakar is seeking to improve Nigeria for Nigerians.
Atiku was criticised by Tinubu on Friday in Delta State for running for president of Nigeria more than once.
“There are few of us left running, one says he is Atiku, how many times has he been running? He is always on the run and he is tired. Tell him to go and sit down. Enough is enough,” Tinubu said.
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Although he asserted that Atiku has enough of strong reasons to run for president in 2023 while he maintained that his principle is just interested in rebuilding Nigeria for the benefit of all.
“It’s only in this country that you put people who are sane in the same environment with people who are mental. It is really unfortunate.
“Let me start with where Atiku is not running to. He is not running to drug trafficking and money laundering. That’s Asiwaju’s territory. He is not running to forgery and perjury, forging documents and all. He is not running there. He is not running to a shaded past, early stages of life that are unknown. He is not running to hiding one’s medical state,” Ibe said.
“He is running to make Nigeria better for Nigerians; he is running to use his experience to transform and recover Nigeria for the good of all. He is running to unify the country that has been divided by over seven years of a clueless and incompetent APC administration foisted on us by characters like Tinubu. That’s why he is running,” he said.
