APC vs PDP: Buhari campaign states position on Atiku, Obi’s performance at town hall meeting

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, has stated that presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Peter Obi performed woefully at a town hall meeting tagged ‘’The Candidates.”

The televised interview session was organised by the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with NTA and DARIA media in Abuja.
In a statement on Thursday, Festus Keyamo, Director, Strategic Communications of the Buhari campaign, said Atiku, “defined corruption as the use of your privileged position to either enrich yourself or enrich your relatives or even your friends”.

When this is juxtaposed with his earlier statement in Lagos, that he will enrich his friends if he becomes President, we can safely conclude that he will be fully in the business of corruption if he becomes President.
“Secondly, Atiku/Obi made it clear to Nigerians that conflict of interests as a public servant should be the norm as, during their tenures, they found absolutely nothing wrong then and today, with investing public funds in enterprises they own or their families own. For instance, Kadaria ran Peter Obi into a ditch when she asked him if his family was not enriched as a result of using public funds for his family business ‘NEXT’.
“Thirdly, their claim on experience in running anything public or private cannot stand any act of scrutiny. The presidential candidate, who is easily a major contributor to our huge unemployment problem today as a result of his corrupt privatisation programme, counts this failure as a huge experience and wants to repeat same if elected.

“Finally, their proposed Agriculture Programme which they claim to have put together to lift majority of the people out of poverty is a version of what is already being implemented by the present government under the Anchors Borrowers Programme and the Government Enterprises and Empowerment Programmes.
“After watching Atiku/Obi on that programme, it has become clear to all Nigerians that our public institutions and commonwealth would be in grave danger if left in the hands of these dodgy and questionable characters who have no morals and no scruples about using and misusing public funds for private gains.”