By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja
Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has described President Bola Tinubu as a drowning man clutching at political theatre to escape the weight of his own failures.
Atiku’s stance followed the president’s recent declaration that he would “wrestle his opponents to the finish.”
In a statement issued on Wednesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said Tinubu’s remark was the lamentation of a drowning man desperately seeking to divert attention from an abysmal record in office, adding that no amount of macho rhetoric can rescue a government that has already lost the confidence of Nigerians.
Atiku said it was disturbing that such a remark was made in response to a solemn appeal by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria for credible, transparent and peaceful elections, adding that the President’s response underscored a prevailing sense of aloofness and reflected a troubling lack of courtesy, humility and decorum expected of him during such a high-profile engagement with one of the country’s most respected moral institutions.
