Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has come under fresh attack from the All Progressives Congress, which backed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s assessment of the 2027 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Party.
Relying on Obasanjo’s comments about Atiku, the ruling party warned Nigerians against giving the former vice president another leadership opportunity.
The APC National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, said Obasanjo was speaking from a position of knowledge about Atiku.
But Atiku declared that Obasanjo’s outburst against him would not stop him from winning the 2027 presidential election, calling on the former president to be noble in his actions.
Atiku accused Obasanjo of being driven by bitterness over the failure of the controversial third-term agenda and attempting to rewrite the country’s political history.
Obasanjo had on Friday described his decision to pick Atiku as his running mate in the 1999 presidential election as the biggest mistake of his presidency.
The former president, who spoke in Lagos during a fireside conversation with veteran entertainer and activist Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, said, “The man I picked as my running mate, my number two. If I had known him as I came to know him later, I would not have picked him.”
