Lere Olayinka, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike’s Senior Particular Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, has insisted that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, lied by claiming that he picked the previous Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, as his operating mate within the 2023 presidential election primarily based on report of the committee arrange by the Individuals’s Democratic Party (PDP) to pick its Vice Presidential candidate.
Olayinka, who reiterated that the FCT Minister was by no means eager about being Atiku’s operating mate due to the big baggages he’s carrying, and he had no remorse, working in opposition to him (Atiku) within the 2023 presidential election, described the assertion issued by the media workplace of the two-time PDP presidential candidate as face-saving and “an try to make use of additional lies to defend Atiku’s earlier lies.”
In an announcement in Abuja on Sunday, Olayinka stated “report of the committee was launched in order to set the information straight, and this has made Atiku and his males to admit that in choosing his operating mate, he (Atiku) didn’t comply with the report of the committee arrange by the PDP. He merely picked who he needed, not who the social gathering needed.
“By saying that ‘there have been no laid down guidelines or legal guidelines on the choice strategy of a operating mate. Committees, consultations, and proposals are advisory in nature. The ultimate choice rests solely and completely with the presidential candidate, on this case, Atiku Abubakar. It’s a constitutional and strategic alternative, not a reputation contest,’ Atiku’s Media Workplace has confirmed that their principal truly lied and by no means had any regard for the PDP as a celebration.
“It subsequently gladdens our hearts that now we have been capable of set up that Atiku lied and he isn’t a person to be trusted. That he selected to lie in the course of the Holy Month of Ramadan is nonetheless between him and Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala).
“As for his alternative of operating mate in 2019 and 2023, it’s our place that Atiku, because the PDP candidate had the proper to make no matter alternative, and he ought to be capable to defend his alternative and be sincere for as soon as to just accept the results, not making an attempt to misrepresent details to justify the selection he made.
“Additionally it is to be reiterated that simply as Atiku, the loser within the election has stated he has no remorse over the selection he made, Wike too has no remorse over his alternative.
“Subsequently, nobody is harboring any private ill-feeling in opposition to Atiku for failing with the selection he made, and nobody also needs to harbour ill-feeling in opposition to Wike for succeeding with the selection he made.
“Additionally, as for us, no ego is bruised, no bitterness too. Only a clear case of we making our alternative and also you making your individual alternative. However greater than two years after, you at the moment are making an attempt to defend your individual alternative of failure with lies.
“On the PDP and the duty of rebuilding it, it’s obligatory for Atiku to first come clear as to which social gathering he belongs now, as a result of PDP has not shaped coalition with any political social gathering. Most significantly, his penchant for in search of to contest the presidential election beneath any accessible social gathering has remained PDP’s main albatross.”
Lere Olayinka
Senior Particular Assistant
Public Communications and Social Media
