•Says Villa dinner amid Owo massacre shows lack of empathy
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has lambasted the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for fixing its national convention for working days thereby causing disruptions.
The former vice president also observed that the Sunday night dinner hosted by President Muhammadu Buhari for the party’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) was disconcerting coming at a time when the whole of the country and the rest of the world was in a sober mood, on account of the massacre in Owo, Ondo State.
A statement issued by Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to the presidential candidate noted: “Needless to say that the so-called primary election is standing on the backdrop of the reported claim of President Muhammadu Buhari to be given an opportunity to handpick his successor.
“With the blood of innocent worshippers flowing on the street of the Sunshine state, leaders of the APC are gathered in Abuja, treating themselves to sumptuous dinner in a manner that suggests lack of empathy to the mood of the nation.”
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Atiku observed that the exercise to pick the presidential candidate of the party that kicked off on Monday in Abuja, is a referendum on the performance of the APC government, telling the party delegates that there is no need to let the party hand on to power for a day longer.
The statement added: “However, if the charade that the APC calls a presidential convention primary election is merely to handpick an anointed candidate, it is important to ask the managers of the ruling party why they elected to slate the so-called convention for a working day, thereby disrupting economic activities around the Federal Capital Territory.
“Even as delegates in the so-called election entered into the Federal Capital Territory, they must have been greeted with long queues of vehicles waiting to buy automobile fuel and darkness that continues to grim the capital city on account of seizures in electricity supply.