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Presidential villa not for bandits -Dino Melaye lambast Shettima
Senator Dino Melaye, a spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, has chastised Kashim Shettima, the vice presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that the presidential villa is not for bandits.
Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, admitted yesterday that his campaign for the presidency would move forward even though the party’s crisis had not yet been resolved.
In a Washington, DC, interview with the Hausa Service of Voice of America (VOA), Atiku insisted that the call for the ouster of the party’s national chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, was unwarranted and unproductive.
If elected president the following year, the former vice president made a commitment that, if any group of people was interested in controlling the affairs of the state, they would not do so as a cabal or under any other name.
He declared that the death penalty for kidnappers would be supported by his future administration. In a statement, Melaye said, “Kashim Shettima, the grand commander of bandits and the running mate of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who has gathered enough money from his field soldiers to be so inebriated as to engage in a verbal gibberish that is only permitted in Sambisa forest.
“He has been seen in the footage, where he was exciting a rented crowd with whimsical potshots at His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar. It was the same hallucination that made Shettima have defined an illusory presidency, where he would create an office for Boko Haram in the villa, with him in charge of the security of our precious Nigeria.
“The emergence of the garrulous, intemperate, and indecorous Shettima is another manifestation of the failure of APC, which after weeks of shilly-shally to fill the slot of a running mate, ultimately, settled for a rustic jejune, whose concept of a suit is the sartorial equivalence of babanriga.
“The joke rested squarely on Shettima, who in an attempt to desecrate the wholesomeness of Abubakar Atiku succeeded in promoting the presidential campaign front-runner as a productive, enterprising, and job-creating office seeker, who does not fit into the mold of rent seekers like Shettima and his presidential campaign boss.”
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Dino Melaye urged Nigerians to evaluate those he called political jesters who understood political campaigning as the acerbic deployment of an unsterilized mouth. He added that Shettima’s attempt to disparage Atiku’s high profile only succeeded in promoting him as a global citizen who was welcome in Dubai.
Meanwhile, the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2023 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar says he is no longer bothered about the leadership crisis rocking the party.
Recall that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his Benue, Enugu, Abia, and Oyo State counterparts, Samuel Ortom, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Okezie Ikpeazu and Seyi Makinde, respectively, fell out with the presidential candidate over the demand for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.
Wike and the four other aggrieved governors had vowed that until Ayu quits his position as National Chairman of the party, they would withhold their support for Atiku in 2023.
Efforts by stakeholders of the party to restore normalcy proved abortive after a series of meetings with Wike failed to yield positive results.
Speaking on the matter, the former vice president in an interview with VOA Hausa, said he has moved on, stating that leadership change is currently impossible in the party.
“We are yet to resolve the matter. But we have moved on, I don’t have any worries about that anymore.
“And at this junction, it’s improper to talk about leadership change in the party while elections are fast approaching,” Atiku said.