Phrank Shaibu, former vice president Atiku Abubakar’s special assistant on public communication, has cautioned the presidency that the alliance poses a serious challenge that the All Progressives Congress, APC, cannot “laugh off.”
Shaibu stated that the APC lacks an ideology and is collapsing due to its own shortcomings.
He said this in reaction to criticism of former APC members who joined the African Democratic Congress, including Rotimi Amaechi, Abubakar Malami, Rauf Aregbesola, and Hadi Sirika, by President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga.
Yesterday, when the ADC was introduced as the coalition’s official platform, these former APC leaders defected to the party.
Shaibu responded by calling Onanuga’s comment “a political obituary laced with bitterness” and accusing him of attempting to divert Nigerians’ attention from the young people.
In a statement on X, Shaibu wrote: “Your latest tirade, laced with bile and paranoia, is a tired attempt to spin the truth and distract Nigerians from the obvious. The APC is crumbling under the weight of its own failures, and the emerging coalition is the first real threat you and your fellow propagandists can no longer laugh off.”
”Let’s put it plainly. Your essay is not analysis, it is a political obituary laced with bitterness. You mention names like Amaechi, Aregbesola, Malami, and Oyegun, men whose footprints are etched in the very foundations of the APC. But now that they no longer genuflect before the emperor in Bourdillon, you reduce them to ‘disgruntled’ or ‘irrelevant’? You insult their intelligence, and by extension, yours.”
”You claim this coalition has no ideology. But let’s ask you, Mr. Onanuga, what ideology does the APC stand for today, apart from hunger, insecurity, fuel hikes, propaganda, and presidential absenteeism? Is it not under your beloved party that the naira became toilet paper, graduates became street hawkers, and citizens began fleeing their own country like refugees?”
”The truth is simple. You and your ilk are scared. Scared of unity. Scared of rising voices. Scared of a coalition too broad to smear and too determined to break. You know what’s coming, and like a man watching the tide roll in, you are screaming at the waves, hoping they turn back.”
”You warn about personal ambitions in the coalition, yet you ignore the fact that it was personal ambition that tore the soul out of your party. It was ego, raw, selfish, imperial ego, that fractured your ranks, chased away your brightest minds, and handed Nigeria to a cabal incapable of basic governance.”
”If anyone is desperate, Bayo, it is the APC and its talking heads, desperate to cling to a lie that the people have already rejected. This coalition didn’t form out of envy. It formed out of necessity, because Nigerians can no longer endure the pain your party inflicts daily.”
”You have made a career of defending the indefensible. But history is a brutal judge. And when the curtain falls, it will remember you not as a patriot, but as a chief apologist of Nigeria’s decline.”
”The time of reckoning is coming. The lies are ending. And no propaganda, no matter how well written, will stop the people from reclaiming their country.”
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