In advance of the 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, the candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has challenged Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), to an hour-long television interview.
This information was provided by Atiku in a statement that his media adviser, Paul Ibe, released on his behalf in response to the Tinubu Campaign Organization’s claim that he was unprepared to serve as president due to some of the topics covered in his most recent television appearance.
As previously reported by InsightnaijaTV, Tinubu’s campaign characterized Atiku as a “pathological” liar who requested the former governor of Lagos State as his running mate in 2007 but was turned down.
Reactiing to Tinubu’s statement, Ibe said, “‘We would like to challenge Bola Tinubu to subject himself to an hour long interview, like the Waziri did, and if he is able to be as articulate and mentally present as our candidate, then he can talk. Until then, we will only want to remind him and his yes men that they are not in a position to point fingers when they have not sat on the hot seat.”
Ibe added that the former vice president was “amused to read the knee jerk response from the Tinubu Campaign Organisation to the wave-making interview granted by Atiku Abubakar”
Ibe said the Tinubu campaign “exposed its gross desperation and vacuousness by citing the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) 1999, to declare Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s stance on engaging in a side business while he was a young customs officer as a breach of the law. It is pertinent to educate the Tinubu campaign organization that Nigeria is not under a military regime and our Constitutions are not retroactive in nature.”
“Atiku Abubakar has earned Masters’s degree from Anglia Ruskin University. We challenge any of the present Presidential candidates to present an equal or higher degree. Moreover, his university attendance is a matter of verified record. Can we say the same about some other persons?”
