‘Your desperation behind PDP’s woes,’ APC faults Atiku’s allegation towards Tinubu

The All Progressives Congress has blasted former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his allegation that the Bola Tinubu’s administration paid a N50m bribe to opposition events to weaken their management forward of the 2027 election.

Atiku made the allegation whereas talking as a panellist at a nationwide convention on strengthening democracy in Nigeria in Abuja on Monday.

The convention was organised by the African Centre for Management, Technique and Growth, the Centre for Democracy and Growth, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the Peering Advocacy and Development Centre in Africa, and the Nationwide Peace Committee.

The previous VP warned that the nation was on the verge of shedding its hard-earned democracy if it continued on the present trajectory.

“I wish to make this public. I met with leaders of a political occasion within the opposition, they usually brazenly admitted that this authorities provides them N50 million every,” Atiku disclosed.

Reacting, the Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, in a press release in Abuja on Tuesday, described Atiku’s allegation as ‘merely bogus and laughable.’

In accordance with him, peddling rumours and unsubstantiated allegations had been indicators of desperation by the previous VP.

“Atiku’s allegation that the APC-led administration was paying out N50m to some opposition figures is solely bogus and laughable. Atiku is aware of that his political desperation is chargeable for the PDP’s catastrophic disintegration.

“Peddling rumours and unsubstantiated allegations ought to be beneath anybody within the standing of an elder statesman, a former Vice President and a serial contestant for the exalted workplace of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he acknowledged.

The APC spokesman additional criticised Atiku, his counterpart within the Labour Party, Peter Obi and a former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, over allegation that the ruling occasion might have been sponsoring the disaster within the opposition amid talks of a coalition.

He stated, “The weird suggestion by opposition figures like Atiku, Peter Obi, and lately, aggrieved leaders like Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that our nice occasion could also be complicit within the inner corrosion of opposition events is pitiful, and solely an incompetent alibi for his or her crass failure to handle their affairs.

“They can not govern their events however tout their capacity to manipulate Africa’s most populous nation. We can not probably overlook how Atiku’s PDP heavy-handedly captured most South-West states and vowed to stay in energy for 60 years.

“It was in those self same years that Atiku’s former boss after which President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, infamously described the election as a ‘do or die affair’ in a determined try and annex Lagos. We deserve higher than petty politicking and alarmist rhetoric from an elder statesman.”