Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been called a traitor by the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who is in charge of special media projects and new media for the Tinubu/Shettima PCC, said this in a statement on Thursday. He was responding to a statement from Senator Dino Melaye, who is said to be the spokesperson for the PDP Presidential Campaign Management Committee.
Melaye had said that Senator Kashim Shettima, the APC Vice Presidential candidate, was a “grand commander of bandits” in a statement.
He also said that Shettima planned to set up an office for the terrorist group Boko Haram at the presidential villa if Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate in 2023, wins the election.
Fani-Kayode said that Atiku had betrayed everyone he had worked with, including former President Obasanjo, the late Gen. Musa Yar’Adua, and Yar’Adua’s brother, the late President Musa Yar’Adua.
He said that what Melaye said was complete nonsense.
He said that the claim against Shettima was ridiculous and meant to scare people into thinking that the APC is a group of terrorists and that the party’s candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is a man who supports terrorism.
Fani-Kayode promised that Atiku will lose at the polls in his ward to the party in power, the APC.
He said:
“These are meaningless words said by a meaningless man who is running a meaningless campaign.
“I can tell you that Atiku Abubakar is a traitor. He has always betrayed everyone who has worked with him, including President Obasanjo, the late Gen. Yar’Adua, the late President Yar’Adua, the APC, and the PDP. His record as a public servant is a lie.
“In the end, he’ll turn against PDP again. You remember that he betrayed his party’s governors. Dino Melaye says this is the man who should be President of our country because he broke his word. No way!”
Fani-Kayode told Atiku to stay home because Nigerians, not people in Washington, Paris, or Dubai, will decide who the next president is.
