APC charges Atiku to come clean on health status, corruption allegation

• Published date: 11 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to come out clean on his health status and speak on issues of corruption surrounding him.

Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) threw the challenge in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja.

'It's time for Atiku Abubakar, the 76-year-old presidential candidate of the PDP to come clean over two issues beclouding his campaign.

'His health status and his scandalous confession of how he colluded with his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to fleece the Nigerian treasury, using Special Purpose Vehicles as vice-president in 1999.

'If Atiku has some modicum of honour, he ought to have stepped down from the presidential race that he is bound to lose again,'' Onanuga stated.

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This, he added, was especially because of the release of his audio clip where he 'provided a vivid explanation into the modus operandi of his legendary corruption''.

Onanuga noted that so far, there had been no notable response from Atiku's camp about the disturbing revelation, except for a futile attempt to disown the whistle blower, Michael Achimugu, an erstwhile media consultant to Atiku.

The APC PCC Director of Media and Publicity noted also that Nigerians were appalled that Atiku and the PDP merely shrugged off the bombshell.

He implored Nigerians to hold Atiku to account over the shocking revelation by rejecting him at the polls in February.

'Atiku is also not talking about his health status even when his hirelings daily make futile attempts to divert public attention to his main rival by cooking up lies upon lies.

'Whereas Atiku is the candidate that Nigerians should be sorely worried about, the lies of several years and the various diversionary tactics are no longer sustainable.

'Atiku's edifice of lies is about to crash on him; the PDP presidential...