Countering Atiku yesterday, Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director of Publicity of Tinubu Campaign Organisation, said Atiku’s supporters “trying to latch on any straw since their principal’s lies have been debunked.”
He continued: “We should not lose sight of the issue: Atiku sought to put himself on a religious higher ground by pretending to hate same faith ticket, citing most erroneously how he rejected Asiwaju as running mate in 2007.
“Asiwaju said it didn’t happen as he said. It was rather Atiku who offered him the post, which he rejected.”
We have also reminded Nigerians that in 1993, Atiku was not against same faith ticket when he stood to benefit as MKO Abiola’s running mate. But Abiola overlooked him for Babagana Kingibe.
“ We will like to restate that Atiku is now merely making a politically convenient and opportunistic argument, trying to fault our Tinubu-Shettima ticket using the emotive issue of religion.
“Our ticket is not about religion. It’s about two men, two Nigerians with track records in their various states, with verified competence and strength of character, who are coming to help fix our nation’s problems of insecurity, the economy and infrastructure.
“These problems did not begin seven years ago. The foundation was laid in 16 years of PDP mismanagement of our country’s commonwealth.”
