By Sarah NEGEDU
The interim National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has be asked to purge himself of his penchant for party crosscarpeting, rather than blaming others for his poor political decisions.
Recall that Bolaji Abdullahi, yesterday, while responding to some jibes at the ADC, by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, said the coalition movement were aggrieved that they allowed themselves to be used by Wike to destroy the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
In his words, “If we have any grievances, it is the way the government he is a part of has driven majority of Nigerians into poverty and misery. We are aggrieved to see children of the poor unable to get education because he would not pay their teachers’ salaries. We are aggrieved to watch the growing insecurity in the FCT that he superintends. We are aggrieved that minister Wike had allowed himself to be used by the government he serves to destroy one of the most powerful political parties in Africa, the PDP”.
However responding, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Lere Olayinka, insisted that it was the political “waka-about” of Abdullahi and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, that contributed to the misfortune of the PDP.
Olayinka, while chronicling the political crosscarpeting of the former National Publicity Secretary of the APC, asked in a statement on Friday, if Wike was responsible for his initial defection from the PDP in 2014, or it was because of the fall out he had with his then political godfather, Senator Bukola Saraki.
He then advised Abdullahi and his co-travellers in what he termed “the coalition of confusion” to be honest enough that they were only desperate to grab power for their own selfish interest, insisting that their greed and desperation for power brought the PDP to its present state.
He said; “As usual, in his deceitful manner, Abdullahi failed to mention that the political waka-about of himself and Atiku, his present emergency political leader contributed to the misfortune of the PDP. Or is it not on record that it was the political treachery of Atiku that frustrated the collective efforts of the PDP members in Lagos State to win the State in 2003?
“As a minister in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, why did Abdullahi leave the PDP for the APC then? Was it because the government he was part of failed and Nigerians were angry?
“As National Publicity Secretary of the APC, did he leave the party in 2018 because of Wike or because he saw that his thirst for power could no longer be quenched in the party?
“When in 2019, Abdullahi ran unsuccessfully for nomination as the PDP governorship candidate in Kwara State, was it because Nigerians were angry? Even in 2023, that he got the PDP senatorial ticket, he still lost the election to his APC rival.
“If after serving as Special Assistant, Special Adviser and Commissioner in Kwara State and as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the people of Kwara State could still not trust Abdullahi enough with the PDP governorship ticket and later a Senatorial mandate, it simply means that he is a political liability and this reality he must face.
“Therefore, methinks that he should stop being deceitful and tell Nigerians the truth as to his penchant for ‘Political Jumpology’, rather than the same rhetoric of ‘we want to rescue Nigeria.”
Olayinka also faulted the coalition’s claim that they were not just anti-Tinubu, but more focused on saving Nigeria’s democracy.
He asked, “How can a gathering of people like Atiku Abubakar, a serial decampee whose boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo described as patently corrupt, Nasir El-Rufai, the promoter of body bag politics who as Governor of Kaduna State was busy going on his bended knees to pay terrorists, Hungry Rotimi Amaechi, under whom the judiciary in River State was shutdown for over one year, Dino Melaye, who couldn’t vote for himself in his own election, and other frustrated politicians be about saving democracy?
“Let Abdullahi and his coalition of confusion stop lying to Nigerians. They selfishly want power for themselves and their cronies, but too bad, they won’t get it.”
