The Democratic Front, TDF, has called on Nigerians to see the recent visit by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to former President Muhammadu Buhari, who he has never had any kind words for, as a mere attention seeking ploy and an overwhelming desire to be noticed, no matter what his original intentions might be.
The TDF, made the call in a statement signed by its chairman, Mr. Danjuma Muhammad and the secretary, Mr. Wale Adedayo, on Wednesday, urging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to look away from “the unnecessary distraction adding that Atiku Abubakar was merely fishing for compliments with the hope of keeping himself in the public eye.”
The group said Atiku was only out to generate controversy with his sudden visit to the former president, Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, “even when he never had any good thing to say about him before.”
The visit, the group said, was aimed to create an incitement, some unusually unpremeditated actions, and disruptive political controversy to heat up the stable polity.
“We can recall how after his 2019 defeat in the hand of the former president, Atiku had held the former president with disdain, never saying any good thing about the Buhari administration.
“We also know that there is no record of him paying Sallah homage to the former president in or out of office, so Nigerians are right to suggest that the former VP was either being controversial to provoke attention or was pursuing an ulterior political agenda, which for now is known to only himself.
“And let us not forget how Atiku, through his media handlers, recently described Buhari’s handling of the economy in derogatory terms and accused President Bola Tinubu of toeing a similar path.
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“It is because of Atiku’s inclination for public attention in the course of his inordinate ambition that we call on President Tinubu and his political appointees to ignore and dismiss the mischievous intent that the visit by the former Vice President to Daura may generate. It is, at best, a flutter of an attention-seeking political opportunist.
“Although it is true that Atiku Abubakar has the constitutional right to move freely and visit anybody of his choice, we believe that the controversy he sought to stir with the visit shows how low the former Vice President is willing to go, in pursuit of selfish political aggrandizement.
“We consider it a sad commentary and a degeneration in the essential qualities of statesmanship for a former Vice President to now recline into the use of regional and ethnic sentiments in a desperate bid to govern at all costs.
“This is perfidious against the Nigerian State and proof that Abubakar is not worthy of any high office in Nigeria again.”
