Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Oby Ezekwesili, has described President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a failed enterprise.
Speaking at a press conference to unveil her party’s roadmap for winning the 2019 presidential election, Ezekwesili described the two men as “BUTIKU”.
Buhari is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) while Atiku is the candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“The APC and PDP are not different parties, they are the same party with the candidate BUTIKU’
“These parties are brothers and sister of incompetence, they are merchants of failure,” she said.
Although she served as minister under the PDP government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the 55-year-old said the party is responsible for letting Boko Haram escape with the kidnapped Chibok girls and death of job seekers during the Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment in 2014, among others.
Oby Ezekwesili echoed US President Donald Trump’s alleged reference of Buhari as lifeless.
“No president will ever call me lifeless, my leadership will not be by trial and error and will not spend time giving excuses of engaging in blame games”
“There is no shadow of doubt President Buhari is the most parochial, most nepotistic and most partisan president that Nigeria has ever seen,” she said.
“This president talks about fighting grand corruption. Please, please, give me a break! Can corruption fight corruption? Does he think we cannot see? A president that looks the other way while his friends and cronies suffocate and strangle our country?”
She also referred to Atiku’s indictment for money laundering in the United States of America for which he is reportedly barred from entering the country.
“I don’t have issues attaining visas to any country in the world, be it the US or the UAE, they will be delighted to welcome me,” she said.
“How sad it will be if we choose to elect an individual who jumps from party to party and has corruption cases in the USA?”
Ezekwesili called on Nigerians to support her candidacy saying she “is one of the very small tribe of Nigerians who have served in government but who have no allegation of corruption against them. I don’t mean court case o. I mean allegation. Zero, none.”
The former vice president of the World Bank for Africa says she has as a campaign cornerstone the lifting of over 80 million Nigerians out of poverty into progress and prosperity.
