Atiku Calls for Rejection of Tinubu's Re-election Bid, Describes His Administration as a Failure

By Missang AKPET

The Peoples Democratic Party's presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has urged Nigerians to reject the re-election bid of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the forthcoming general elections, describing Tinubu's administration as a complete failure.

In a tweet on his official X handle, the former Vice President said the 2027 general election is a political battle that is not APC versus PDP, or LP versus APC, but Nigerians versus an administration that has plunged the nation into untold suffering.

He said the country is currently experiencing the highest level of inflation, with the economy in freefall, jobs vanishing, and youths' restiveness surging to terrifying levels.

"This moment is about our collective survival. The real enemy is not one another - it is the Tinubu administration's abysmal failure.

"We must reject every attempt to distract us with ethnic, regional, or religious sentiments. These are tools of manipulation, designed to divide and conquer, used by those with nothing else to offer.

"The Tinubu administration has no achievements to stand on, no credible record to defend. Its only strategy is chaos and division, because that's the last refuge of the incompetent.

"Nigerians are not just tired - they are angry. Make no mistake, an incompetent captain does not only wreck his ship; he endangers the lives of everyone on board, so he must be rejected," he lamented.

On his former running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, decamping to the ruling APC, Atiku said he bears no grudges against anyone for exercising their right to political alignment.

"Defections, alliances, and realignments are part and parcel of democratic politics. We've seen them before, and we'll see them again.

"Freedom of association and expression are not optional in a democracy - they are fundamental rights," he added