Former Vice President and All Progressives Congress member, Abubakar Atiku, has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party’s only legacy to Nigeria is looting the National Treasury.
Speaking in response to perceived insults against his political persona by the PDP, Atiku said, “The personal insults in the PDP statement succeeded in doing just one thing, which is to depict its managers as childish, petulant, and above all, incompetent.
“It confirms the notion on the part of many that they don’t have what it takes to live up to their ‘sacred’ mandate.
“They have lost their way, and their refusal to recognize the error of their ways has prompted the shepherds to reluctantly move on, for the nation’s sake, to build a better future for the country’s teeming population,” he put forward.
Since almost all of us – the founding members of the PDP – have been hounded out of the party because we allegedly have one aspiration or the other, people who supported of military rule or did not even know what was going on are now the masters of PDP, and present themselves as the custodians of the nation’s future.
“But I challenge anyone of them to show their contribution, except looting the Nigerian treasury,” Atiku said.
“If I and other patriots, working in tandem with the National Assembly, did not work together to retain term limits in the constitution, none of those holding power today would not have been there from local, state or Federal Governments.
“Those who wrap themselves in the PDP banner should at least recognise and respect those of us who made today’s debates possible,” Atiku said.