PDP attacks Tinubu over Atiku

*Says Atiku is a democrat

The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday said the alleged resort to flippancy by the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, cannot detract people from that fact that the PDP  presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is an established democrat.

It stated that Tinubu, in attacking Atiku’s state of the nation address, which embodied the concerns, fears and apprehensions of Nigerians over President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged despotic tendencies, has shown that he has finally turned his back against Nigerians because of pecuniary interests.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement urged  Nigerians to note that all the accusations of undemocratic actions alluded to by  Tinubu against Atiku did not come under Atiku’s purview of decision or his sphere of control while in office as the Vice President of Nigeria.

Ologbondiyan said, “If anything, Atiku was in charge of the economy during the period and every Nigerian can testify that, within that time, our economy thrived to be one of the fastest growing in the world and the purchasing power of citizens was much higher than what obtains today.

“It is therefore very pitiable that Asiwaju has become flippant in his desperation to please the cabal and market a bad product that President Buhari has become before Nigerians.

“It is rather unfortunate that while other respected leaders in our country are rallying with the peoples candidate, Atiku, to rescue our nation from the stranglehold of undemocratic forces, Asiwaju is busy dining with such oppressive forces and casting aspersion on respected leaders, to the chagrin of Nigerians across the board.”