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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday reacted to the swipe at him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saying he deserves respect as a former vice president of the country.
Atiku, in a statement by his media office in Abuja, said it was inappropriate for the PDP leadership to describe him as an “ingrate” saying as a former Vice President and someone who had worked hard in the formation of the PDP, he deserved respect and decent language from the PDP leaders.
The PDP had in a statement by its national publicity secretary on Monday said Atiku should not cast aspersions on the PDP as he had benefitted much from the party in the past.
The former vice president in the statement also faulted the PDP on some of the issues they took him on, saying, “when leaders speak, they should not do so with selective memory.”
He 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 else 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 recognise 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.”
The former vice president lampooned the leaders of the PDP who he said kept a low profile when he along with others fought to remove the military from power.
“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 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,” the former Vice President said.
Atiku said if he and others working wih the National Assembly did not work together to retain term limits in the Constitution none of those holding power today would have been there.
Download National Dialogue Committee's Reports (in PDF)The PDP had in a statement by its national publicity secretary on Monday said Atiku should not cast aspersions on the PDP as he had benefitted much from the party in the past.
The former vice president in the statement also faulted the PDP on some of the issues they took him on, saying, “when leaders speak, they should not do so with selective memory.”
He 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 else 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 recognise 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.”
The former vice president lampooned the leaders of the PDP who he said kept a low profile when he along with others fought to remove the military from power.
“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 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,” the former Vice President said.
Atiku said if he and others working wih the National Assembly did not work together to retain term limits in the Constitution none of those holding power today would have been there.
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