Atiku tackles Tinubu over ‘power-snatching’ statement

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has called out Bola Tinubu, flagbearer for the All Progressives Congress for saying that power must be grabbed and snatched at all cost.

Recall that Bola Tinubu was captured on camera urging his members in London that “political power is not going to be served in a restaurant. It is not served a la carte. At all costs, fight for it, grab it, snatch it and run with it.”

Reacting to Tinubu's comment on Friday, Atiku's spokesperson, Paul Ibe, said that the APC presidential candidate statement proves that the members of the APC are “enemies” of democracy.

According to Ibe, Tinubu and the APC have no achievement in the last seven years. He added that their plan “is to snatch, steal, and subvert the cause of democracy”.

He said: “This is a confirmation that these are enemies of democracy masked as progressives. They are enablers of violence and snatching of ballot boxes.

“It is obvious even to the blind that the APC and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, do not have any records of achievement in the last seven years plus to campaign on. And so their plan is to snatch, steal and subvert the cause of democracy.

“All men and women of goodwill who love this country and are truly committed to the bid to recover Nigeria must sleep with their two eyes wide open in the days ahead and on election day because eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

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