Presidency: Tinubu & Atiku Exchange Words Over Health, Credibility Status

 

Presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and  the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday 11th of January 2023, traded words over their health condition and corruption-free status.

Tinubu assured Nigerians of his sound health and corruption-free status, saying Nigerians should, rather, worry about the PDP candidate.

Firing back, the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation lampooned the APC candidate over his failed attempt to impute illness on its Presidential Candidate.

Tinubu, in a statement, by the Director, Media and Publicity of his Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, Mr Bayo Onanuga, said Atiku must come clean on issues regarding his health and corruption allegations.

The statement reads: “It is time for Atiku Abubakar, the 76-year-old presidential candidate of the PDP to come clean over two issues clouding his campaign: his health status and his scandalous confession of how he colluded with his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to fleece the Nigerian treasury, using the special purpose vehicles after he became Vice-President in 1999.”

He said if Atiku has some modicum of honour, he ought to have stepped down from the race that he is bound to lose again, “following the release of his audio clip, in which he provides a vivid explanation of the modus operandi of his legendary corruption.”

Reacting to the salvo fired by the APC candidate, the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation said Tinubu has no moral standing to “impugn the impeccable character and integrity of the incoming peoples’ president, Atiku.”

A statement by the spokesman of the campaign organisation, Mr Kola Ologbodiyan, said the campaign organisation has “refrained from Tinubu’s appalling health issues before this ignoble public dance of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign.”

The statement reads: “The Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation mocks the wobbly, wonky and narcotic-devastated presidential Candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Tinubu, over his failed attempt to impute illness on the healthy and energetic presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.

“The campaign also describes as ludicrous the failed attempt by Tinubu, the famed Lagos property stripper, who has gained notoriety as corruption personified and the living example of the artful dodger, to impugn the impeccable character and integrity of the incoming peoples’ President, Atiku.

However, since Tinubu by himself has opened the channels for Nigerians to examine his ill health, we have no other option than to further expose that the APC candidate must be suffering from manifest Parkinson’s disease accompanied by incontinence.

“For clarity, Parkinson’s disease is a brain disorder whose symptoms include shaking hands, stiffness of limbs, difficulty with coordination, the problem with balance when walking; articulation disorder, memory problems as well as general mental and physical weakness, which are all being witnessed in the APC Presidential Candidate.

“This perhaps accounts for the desperation, the endless gaffes, the articulation errors, the incoherence, the many blunders and disconnection from reality for which Asiwaju Tinubu has become the butt of weird jokes among Nigerians and internationally.