Atiku To Lai Mohammed: Stop Lying During Holy Month Of Ramadan

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) has reacted to allegation against him by the President
Muhammadu Buhari led administration, alleging that he has made
treasonable statements.

In his reaction, Atiku said that it is not surprising that such
a despicable lie is emanating from Lai Mohammed, who President
Buhari aptly named Minister of Information.

Atiku, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe said that
those who employed Lai Mohammed know that he’s a liar, who will
even lie during the holy month of Ramadan.

The former Vice President, who said that only the guilt are
afraid, added that Lai Mohammed is so associated with lies that
even Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said, on Monday, May 13, 2019,
that “people like Lai Mohammed, Abba Kyari, Adamu Adamu they are
usually very well behaved during the Ramadan. But I’m not even sure
that that is true anymore.”

“When we have a situation where even those who employed him know
that Lai Mohammed is a liar, who will even lie during the holy
month of Ramadan, then why should Nigerians be surprised at this
latest lie?

“Mr Lai Mohammed is only being clever by half when he says ‘It
beggars belief that a candidate who prides himself as a democrat
can so allow desperation to becloud his sense of propriety to such
an extent that he will be associating with anti-democratic forces
or making inflammatory statements.’

“Atiku Abubakar is a man of peace and a thoroughbred democrat.
It is preposterous that those who threatened to ‘soak the dog and
the baboon in blood’ are now audacious enough to point the finger
at lifelong democrats. Truly, if the farmer does not raise the
alarm on time, the thief will accuse him of being a thief.

“How can a man who wined and dined with Nigeria’s most brutal
dictator, how can a man who overthrew a democratically elected
President and held a grudge against him even in death (as evidenced
by the empty condolence register he left in Sokoto, last year)
accuse a man who has never been as much as associated with such
tendencies, of being an anti-democrat?” he said.

Asking why Buhari’s government is so desperate to implicate him,
Atiku said, “we want to know why the desperation on the part of the
Muhammadu Buhari government to rope in the Peoples Democratic Party
and its Presidential candidate in phantom plots? Obviously,
President Buhari wants to replay the Phantom plot saga of his now
deceased mentor, who threw former President Olusegun Obasanjo in
jail after falsely accusing him of treason in order to perpetuate
himself in power.

“Could it be that they are now aware that the electoral fraud
they perpetrated during the last Presidential election is about to
be exposed beyond a shadow of a doubt?

“If anybody is ‘beating the drums of war’, it is precisely those
who have issued statements threatening Nigerians and foreigners
alike with ‘body bags.’

“For the avoidance of doubt, let me inform the minister of
disinformation that Atiku Abubakar resisted the Abacha
dictatorship, of which President Muhammadu Buhari was a prominent
member, and it is his resistance and the sacrifice of his
co-travellers, like chief MKO Abiola and Alex Ekwueme, amongst
others, that gave rise to the democracy that the current government
is now trampling on.”

The former Vice President, however, advised Lai Mohammed to face
the alleged cesspool of corruption that has been exposed in his
ministry.

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