Nigerian Youths for Atiku, NYFA, has urged the 2023 presidential candidate of tmNew Nigerian People’s Party, NNPP, Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso, to stop attacking the reputation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Director of Communications, NYFA (Nigeria & Diaspora), Mr Dare Dada, made the call in a statement yesterday in Lagos.
Dada spoke against the background of a recent media interview granted by Kwankwaso, in which he accused Abubakar, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of peddling lies at 80 years of age.
Kwankwaso, in the interview, had claimed that Abubakar’s camp had falsely told some northern elders that the ex-vice president had reached an agreement with him and the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, to take turns at the presidency from 2027.
Dada, who described the claim as untrue, said the former vice president was not a problem to Kwankwaso’s presidential ambition.
“It is so sad that someone of Kwankwanso’s calibre will make frantic efforts to denigrate the person of Alhaji Abubakar just to score some cheap political points.
“The former vice president needs no validation from him to be relevant politically as far as the political space is concerned.
“Engaging in such level of falsehood just to make a point is not only ridiculous but demeaning,” Dada said.
He said such attack on opposition figures is not good at this time when they are supposed to be strategising on an alliance to give Nigerians a better deal in 2027.
Dada said opposition leaders must shun divisive tendencies and rhetorics, capable of undermining the unity and progress needed in the nation.
The youth leader urged Kwankwaso to rather dissipate energy on issues confronting Northern Nigeria and speak up.
