Tinubu lashes out at Atiku saying he resurrected his career after Obasanjo cast him out

FORMER Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has tore into his rival in next month's presidential elections ex-vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar saying he would have been roasted like goat meat by his former boss Chief Olusegun Obasanjo were it not for him.

Next month, Nigerians go to the polls to elect a new president and the two frontrunners are Asiwaju Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Alhaji Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). With the political temperature rising, Asiwaju Tinubu said that he rescued Alhaji Abubakar from former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who he served under between 1999 and 2007.

Speaking at party’s presidential rally held at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, Asiwaju Tinubu said Alhaji Abubakar and his party were just about stomach infrastructure. He added that he saved the former vice president from political annihilation in 2007 but giving him a political platform in which to run for president after he was ostracised by the PDP.

Asiwaju Tinubu said: "They don’t have a mandate, what they have is ice cream and it has melted. I am the one that rescued him from Obasanjo, who wanted to roast him like goat meat.

“He ran away to Dubai and when the election came again, he came for stomach infrastructure, he then came to Lagos. We rehabilitated him and gave him a ticket but he wasted it and used it to collect money.

“He faced Obasanjo, faced Buhari and failed. He failed with Jonathan. He failed in all his subjects. You better watch him before he starts selling the little palm trees that you have left. What we need to do is to develop our country. We have enough gas reservoirs in our land.

“Akwa Ibom, you will not suffer again. That boy, Governor Emmanuel Udom that brought Atiku here, that calls himself governor, tell him enough is enough. He lived in my backyard in Lagos. If not that we are one, I’d have driven him home.”

However, Phrank Shaibu, a spokesman for the PDP presidential campaign, responded saying: “The constant gaffes of Tinubu, which started as a comic relief is slowly becoming a tragedy, an embarrassment to Nigeria, Africa’s largest nation. Since Tinubu declared his intention to contest, he has made over 20 gaffes publicly.

“These gaffes, which have provided online skit makers with comic content, are no longer a laughing matter but a tragic embarrassment to a nation in dire need of salvation. In his latest rally in Akwa Ibom State, Tinubu said he made Atiku Abubakar the senate president when it is on record that Atiku has never contested any legislative election before."