Former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has described the Presidency’s attempt to invoke China in attacking him as a monumental own goal.
Recall that the Tinubu Presidency had blasted Atiku, saying that if he were in China, the former vice president would have rotted in jail for allegedly paying lobbyists to revive President Bola Tinubu’s alleged United States forfeiture case.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said it was ironic that while the Presidency had been busy parading the United States government’s routine reply to its diplomatic correspondence as though it were a love letter, a trophy and a certificate of innocence rolled into one, its spokesman carelessly introduced China into a conversation where the comparison immediately rebounded against his own principal.
He said that Tinubu’s presidency comparison has only exposed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to even greater public scrutiny.
“It takes a peculiar kind of unintelligence for a spokesman to set out to drag an opponent before a hypothetical Chinese court, only to end up dragging his own principal into the dock.
“Perhaps the spokesman did not realise that the maximum penalty under Chinese law for the most serious drug trafficking offences is death. Having chosen China as his benchmark, he unwittingly invited Nigerians to examine the very standard he thought would embarrass Atiku Abubakar.
“The facts are neither complicated nor disputable. Atiku Abubakar has never been indicted or convicted by any court in Nigeria
