A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu has knocked Atiku Abubakar over his condemnation of Anthony Blinken’s call to president-elect, Bola Tinubu.
Atiku, in a tweet, had condemned Blinken, the Secretary of State to the United States, for calling Tinubu, describing his action as demoralising to the citizens.
“I am in disbelief that Secretary Antony Blinken called Tinubu, a contradiction to the publicly stated position of the US on Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. This is inconceivable, considering that America, as the bastion of democracy, is well briefed on the sham election of February 25.
“To give legitimacy to the widely acknowledged fraudulent election in Nigeria can be demoralising to citizens, who have hedged their bet on democracy and the sanctity of the ballot”, Atiku tweeted.
Reacting, Okechukwu classified the statement as hallucination and theatre of the absurd.
Okechukwu said that he is flabbergasted that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubukar Atiku regarded Blinken’s call to president elect, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu as inconceivable and with disbelief.
“With all due respect one rates His Excellency, Abubukar Atiku’s tweet statement as hallucination and classical height of theatre of absurd.
“One, this is His Excellency, who deliberately breached the PDP’s Constitution and the acclaimed ethos of rotation convention of president from north to south and vice versa. How can Atiku after his violent breach, which culminated in the split of his party to internecine factions, now turn around and cry over the milk he split?
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“If His Excellency has been patriotic as APC Northern Governors Forum on rotation convention, no doubt the cacophony of voices could have been minimal?”
The VON DG maintained that the United States of America is compelled to recognize His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president elect of Nigeria and president from 29th of May, 2023, unless the democratic process says otherwise.”
“This is the democratic process, unless the Presidential Election Petition Court rules otherwise, take it or leave Tinubu remains.
“Therefore, I am at a loss that His Excellency, with all his intimidating political credentials, forget that the United States must adhere to subsisting world order which governs international diplomacy,” he added
