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<\/div>\nBola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been asked by Paul Ibe, media adviser to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to participate in an hour-long interview.<\/p>\n
In an interview that was published by ARISE TV on Friday, Abubakar made a number of assertions, one of which was that he turned down Tinubu\u2019s invitation to serve as his running mate in 2007 in order to avoid running on a Muslim-Muslim ticket.<\/p>\n
The Bola Tinubu campaign organization, however, responded to the interview by claiming that the PDP presidential candidate made \u201cmany lies\u201d and shown ignorance of the nation\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n
Ibe referred to the Tinubu campaign organization\u2019s response as \u201cknee-jerk\u201d in a statement he released on Saturday.<\/p>\n
He also said the APC presidential candidate is not in a position to \u201cpoint fingers\u201d at Abubakar.<\/p>\n
Also Read: Atiku Is A Pathological Liar \u2014 He Offered Me Action Congress VP Ticket In 2007, Says Tinubu<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe would like to challenge Bola Tinubu to subject himself to an hour-long interview, as the Waziri did, and if he is able to be as articulate and mentally present as our candidate, then he can talk,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n \u201cUntil then, we will only want to remind him and his yes men that they are not in a position to point fingers when they have not sat on the hot seat.\u201d<\/p>\n Ibe also countered the position of the Tinubu campaign organisation on some of Atiku\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were rather amused to read the knee-jerk response from the Tinubu Campaign Organisation to the wave-making interview granted by Waziri Atiku Abubakar to Arise TV on Thursday, July 21, 2022,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAmusement, because we expected this. Mr. Tinubu has not sat down to do any prolonged interview for obvious reasons. Nigerians have seen him talk in public and can themselves gauge the reason why he is mortified to do so.<\/p>\n \u201cNevertheless, I will now take the issues in their statement one after the other.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Tinubu campaign exposed its gross desperation and vacuousness by citing the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) 1999, to declare Waziri Atiku Abubakar\u2019s stance on engaging in a side business while he was a young custom officer as a breach of the law. It is pertinent to educate the Tinubu campaign organisation that Nigeria is not under a military regime and our Constitutions are not retroactive in nature.<\/p>\n \u201cAgain, the Tinubu campaign betrayed either dishonesty or lack of attention to detail by claiming that Atiku Abubakar said oil contributed 20% of Nigeria\u2019s GDP. That is a lie. What the Waziri said is as follows: \u201cOil only maybe accounts for about 20% of our GDP\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tinubu Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been asked by Paul Ibe, media adviser to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to participate in an hour-long interview. In an interview that was published by ARISE TV on Friday, Abubakar made a number of assertions, one of which was that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1157577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}