APC: 2023 Presidential Election Not Stolen from Atiku, He was Rejected By Nigerians
Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has said contrary to claims by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar that the 2023 presidential election was stolen from him, Nigerians declared their verdict of untrustworthiness, incompetence, on his candidacy, and roundly rejected him at the polls.
Atiku had made the claim in a post on his verified X handle, but the ruling party described Atiku as Africa’s most infamous presidential election loser.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, in a statement issued yesterday, said Atiku’s desperation to be president could only be understood in the context of his determination to complete the full subversion of Nigeria’s economic life from where he left off as vice-president.
He stressed that Nigerians would not entrust their country to someone, who puts his selfish interest, and the interest of his cronies over and above the national interest.
“Make no mistake. Atiku is Africa’s most infamous presidential election loser. Since serving as vice president, he has lost election to every single president that has been elected to office in Nigeria.
“Six times in the last 17 years, Nigerians have declared their verdict of untrustworthiness, incompetence, chronic corruption, visionlessness, uncanny desperation, and lack of sportsmanship on Atiku’s presidential candidacy, and roundly rejected him at the polls.
“Atiku’s long record of electoral defeat was serially certified by Nigeria’s highest courts, sealing his rejection by the electorate with judicial and constitutional finality.
“However, a clearly unabashed Atiku continues to lay a bogus claim that he did not lose the 2023 presidential election. That is beyond comical. Just as he probably believes that he was cheated out of all previous 5 presidential elections that he also lost.”
Atiku’s inability to come to terms with the reality of his rejection cuts an ominous portrait of extreme and disturbing political desperation.
