You Are a Hypocrite, Atiku tells Tinubu

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Waziri Atiku Abubakar, has lambasted All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu, for his “hypocritical attempts” to extricate himself from the many failures of the ruling APC.

Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said this in a statement on Wednesday while reacting to Tinubu’s latest attack against President Muhammadu Buhari at the Calabar rally on Tuesday.

Tinubu had said, “Today, they moved the exchange rate from N200 to N800. If they had repaired it, if they had arrested this, we wouldn’t be where we are today, we would be greater. They don’t know the way, they don’t know how to think, they don’t know how to do it.”

Earlier in Abeokuta the so-called Lagos godfather had accused the President of incompetence especially with regards the scarcity of the new naira notes and the petrol scarcity.

However, Shaibu said Tinubu was not only a pernicious and lubricious hypocrite but also a death-defying politician who is trying to be clever by half. He said it is funny that Tinubu, who proudly held the position of national leader of the APC for the last eight years, could throw the President under the bus in his failed and desperate quest for power.

Shaibu noted that Tinubu had before the election season even defended the exchange rate policy of the current regime when a group of youths led by Moremi Ojudu led a protest to his house located on 26 Bourdillon Street, Ikoyi on February 9, 2017, when the dollar hit N500.

He said Moremi, the daughter of Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser on political affairs to President Muhammadu Buhari, had challenged Tinubu over the declining of the naira but Tinubu was seen on video telling protesting youths that, “I am not worried about the exchange rate because your salary should be in Naira and you are not an importer. Maybe that is even teaching us a lesson to be dependent on our domestic product.”

Shaibu stated, “Tinubu has disingenuously been criticising President Buhari, trying to extricate himself from the failures of the APC which he had vigorously defended in the last eight years. Nigerians must not be deceived by this charlatan who is now posing to be on the side of the masses.

“Tinubu is the APC, mind, soul and body. He was the national leader of the party even before Buhari became the Presidential candidate. Is it possible for a snail to deny its own shell? Tinubu needs to give up this rascally act and take ownership of the failure of his party in the last eight years. His latest outburst is nothing but diversionary tactics.”

Shaibu described Tinubu as a deceitful politician who likes to throw his friends under the bus whenever there is a little challenge.

“Why is Tinubu just attacking Buhari’s policies, many of which have been in place for years? In any case, the previous Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, said at the 65th Tinubu symposium on March 28, 2017 that it was Tinubu’s economic policy that the Buhari regime was using. So, why is Tinubu all of a sudden trying to distance himself from his own failed policy?”

“As elections approach and the reality slowly dawns on Tinubu, he will increase his attacks against the President in order to distance himself from the failure that his party has become. Nigerians must not fall for this trick.”