Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has come under fire from Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation and senior member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for suggesting that he will serve as a springboard for an Igbo presidency.
Atiku described himself as the stepping stone to the Igbo presidency while speaking to supporters at a rally in Anambra State. He urged voters in the southeast to support him to make way for the Igbo presidency.
Atiku bragged that while vying for the country’s presidency, he had partnered with an Igbo man on three times, demonstrating his support for the Igbo presidency. He advised the people of Anambra to support the Atiku/Okowa ticket in 2023 if they wanted to realize their goal of having an Igbo president sooner. Fani-Kayode responded on his Twitter page on Friday, describing Atiku’s remarks as conceited and disgusting.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council Director of New Media stated that the Igbo do not need “a religious bigot, weak and deluded man like atiku to be president.” Fani-Kayode wrote: “The insufferable arrogance and sheer effontry of this man is as repugnant as it is appalling. Do the Igbo need you to become President? “You have been trying to be President for over 30 years and you have not been able to make it and now you are saying you will be the stepping stone for someone else. Just how deluded can you get? “Your advisors have been so unfair to you. You are like a naked man running around with no clothes and telling others that you are the stepping stone to getting them nice new clothes! “Please gather your senses together & hear the following: when the time for an Igbo Presidency comes no-one can stop it and they will not need a fading, weak, corrupt, deceitful, dishonorable, treacherous, anti-Southern religious bigot & ethnic hegemonist to be a stepping stone for them.
“Before you say you want to help Igbos first help yourself & secondly apologise for your atrocious, insensitive& beastly behaviour towards the Christian martyr called Deborah whose murder & lynching you refused to condemn and whose family you refused to commiserate with.
“The best you can do today is to drop your ambition, line up behind Asiwaju who gave you a platform & support in the past when you had nowhere to go and get on your scabby bleached knees and beg Wike, the G5 and the entire south to forgive you for your unconciable, self-seeking and unbearable sense of entitlement. I mean who the hell do you think you are?”
