Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has responded to Edo North Senator Adams Oshiomhole, who criticised him as he prepares to contest the 2027 presidential election under the African Democratic Congress ADC.
In a statement by Atiku’s spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, the former governor was advised to first look at himself in a mirror before speaking.
Recall that Oshiomhole, in a recent interview, said that Atiku, who could not fix his party’s problems, cannot fix Nigeria.
Shaibu’s statement reads in part: “Senator Adams Oshiomhole’s attempt to question Atiku Abubakar’s capacity is nothing more than a tired distraction from the monumental failures of the APC, the very party he helped foist on Nigeria and the same party that has driven the country to its worst state in decades.
Atiku Abubakar was Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, not the national chairman of the PDP, and certainly not the sole administrator of a political institution with thousands of independent leaders across the country. Leadership in a democratic party is not dictatorship. The PDP, unlike the APC, was not a private estate controlled from Bourdillon, where one individual tele-guides decisions and stifles internal democracy.
If Oshiomhole seeks the man who “fixed a party” into a personal empire, he needs only look at the godfather he serves. Under the APC, party supremacy died, dissent was criminalised and institutions of state became partisan weapons. That is the only kind of “fixing” Oshiomhole understands.
He has never been president, yet his development blueprint remains the most coherent Nigeria has seen in decades.
The real question is this: If the APC could not fix Nigeria after eight wasted years and nearly three years of Tinubu, what moral authority does Oshiomhole have to comment on leadership?
Nigerians know the truth. Atiku Abubakar represents vision, experience and capacity.
Oshiomhole represents noise, propaganda, and the bruising legacy of a party that betrayed the hopes of millions. He should sit this one out.”
DAILY POST reports that Atiku officially joined the ADC on Monday to pursue a presidential bid for the seventh time.