The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, describing him as the “Godfather of National Ruin” and asserting that the current administration is cleaning up the mess he helped create.
A statement, signed by the party’s spokesman, Mogaji (Hon) Seye Oladejo, was issued in response to Atiku’s recent criticism where he accused both the PDP and APC of bringing insecurity and hunger to Nigeria.
The APC dismissed Atiku’s comments as a “latest delusional outburst” from a man “whose political record reads like a crime scene,” adding that such “shamelessness deserves a firm reply.”
The party directly accused the former Vice President of personally supervising the plunder of the nation’s wealth, stating, “This is the same Atiku who personally supervised the infamous national assets auction, where Nigeria’s collective wealth was sold to himself, his friends, and faceless cronies through a scandalous privatization bazaar.”
Citing the consequences of those actions, the statement read, “Factories died. Jobs disappeared. Industries collapsed. And today, the same man wants to pretend he played no role? This is not just hypocrisy – it is legendary audacity.”
The Lagos APC argued that the challenges faced by Nigeria today are a direct result of the foundation laid during Atiku’s tenure. It challenged him to deny that “Boko Haram grew from a fringe sect into a national terror under PDP watch,” and that “corruption was a state religion between 1999 and 2015.”
The party asserted, “Atiku was not a spectator – he was the engine room,” and pointedly asked, “So, who truly brought insecurity and hunger to Nigeria? He should look in the mirror.”
The statement took a personal turn, questioning Atiku’s political consistency and legacy, describing him as “a wandering political relic, hopping from PDP to APC to PDP to ADC and back, like a man auditioning for any party willing to pity him.”
It suggested that “a man rejected at the polls, rejected by his state, rejected by his party, and rejected by time should embrace silence.”
The party concluded that Atiku owes Nigeria “years of apology” and should “devote his remaining valedictory days to restitution, seeking the forgiveness of Nigerians for the monumental economic and political crimes committed under his watch.”
In a defiant conclusion, the APC framed the current administration’s efforts as a corrective measure to the past. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is confronting decades of accumulated rot – particularly the damage Atiku and his gang inflicted through corruption, policy incoherence, and institutional collapse.”
“He cannot destroy the house and now complain that the carpenters are sweating. Lagos APC will not allow yesterday’s architects of national disaster to rewrite history with the ink of falsehood,” the statement concluded.
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