Keyamo further said the little Atiku could do after the elections was to quietly relocate to Dubai.
Keyamo’s statement titled, “Atiku Abubakar should quit being delusional: He destroyed his party and reaped the full consequence of his indiscretion,” was a response to the former vice president’s resolve to contest the victory of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, through a legal means.
Atiku had alleged at a press conference in Abuja Thursday evening that the election that produced Tinubu as President-elect was a “rape of democracy”.
According to him, the 2023 presidential poll presented Nigeria with a rare opportunity to reset its leadership but that dream was allegedly truncated by the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Reacting to his claim, Keyamo said the former Adamawa governor’s presidential aspiration died the day his party was fractured into three nucleus components that produced the Labour Party’s Peter Obi and Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party as his political rivals.
This is as he asserted that the PDP candidate breached the zoning principle of his party by insisting on running for the office of the president, when that was clearly “against the mood of the nation.”
He said even after Atiku emerged as a candidate, the PDP itself continued to rub insult on the faces of southern leaders in the party by insisting on keeping the position of National Chairman in the North, saying this obviously led to what eventually culminated to the rebellion of the G-5 Governors before the polls.
The APC PCC spokesman further mocked the PDP candidate, saying his ‘bogus claim’ to have won Saturday’s presidential poll claim without a shred of evidence was the last kick of a dying horse.
He said, “Atiku’s bid for the presidency this time around was dead on arrival when his inordinate ambition fractured his party into three parts, with Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso and Mr. Peter Obi breaking away to the NNPP and the Labour Party respectively. The massive loss he suffered in the traditional PDP zones and states is a clear testament to this.
“One wonders, then, how he expected to have won the elections. It is also comical to see that he claims victory at the polls together with Obi with whom his party has been holding press conferences. Nigerians have since seen through the ambition of Atiku that it is merely self-serving. He has run for Presidency at every point in time in the last 30 years, irrespective of the zoning tilt of the nation. Following his successive failures and rejection by Nigerians in different elections, it should be clear to him by now that he is simply unelectable.
“Atiku’s decision to challenge the outcome of the results is welcome. We are prepared to meet his challenge, no matter the nature of the challenge, anywhere, and anytime. If he is not embracing the olive branch extended to him and other losers in the 2023 elections by the President-elect, Tinubu, the least he can do is to quietly relocate to Dubai which has become his traditional home base.”
