Abubakar Atiku, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was criticised on Sunday by Prince Kazeem Afegbua, a former commissioner for information in the state of Edo, for contributing to the nation’s current issues.
Afegbua, who appeared on the Channels Television programme Sunday Politics, claimed that the former vice president was crucial to the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) 2015 electoral success.
He formerly served as the PDP contender for president’s spokesperson.
In June, the former commissioner defected from the PDP to the APC over the latter’s decision to renounce the zoning principle entrenched in its founding document.
Afegbua emphasised that his long-held belief “that it was the turn of the Southern half of Nigeria to produce the country’s next president” was the driving force for his decision to leave the PDP.
He insisted that the ex-Vice President cannot be exonerated from the crisis rocking the country.
He declared that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has the capacity to lead the country from next year.
The ex-commissioner said: said: “We need not to forget that Atiku was a major financier of the APC in 2015. Apart from participating in the process leading to the victory of the APC that year, he also donated his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, to the APC.
“So when you are blaming APC at any point in time for the current situation in the country, Atiku Abubakar should take the larger blame.”
