The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign to apologize for its failed attempts to smear the reputation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Kola Ologbondiyan, the spokesperson for the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization, made the demand at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to him, the APC’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, shot himself in the leg by allegedly hiring Atiku’s former aide to make false allegations.
Ologbondiyan insisted that Achimugu’s allegations had exposed Tinubu’s involvement in the use of “Special Purpose Vehicles,” particularly the Alpha Beta Company, to defraud Lagos State under the guise of tax collection.
He said;
Now that Tinubu’s evil diversionary scheme against Atiku Abubakar has failed and Nigerians have seen that there is no iota of truth in his allegation against Atiku Abubakar, our Campaign demands that Tinubu should tender an unreserved apology to Atiku Abubakar, he should listen to the voice within and withdraw from the Presidential race.
If anyone is to be arrested and disqualified from the presidential race on account of corruption, certainly, that person is not Atiku Abubakar but Bola Tinubu.
He went on to describe Tinubu as an artful dodger who was trying to create a diversion from his crimes by carrying out character assassination on Atiku.
Ologbondiyan said;
Like the age-long aphorism states, those who dig pits for the innocent always fall into them.
This is the case in the vexatious plots by Asiwaju Tinubu to divert attention from his litany of atrocities by seeking to impugn the impeccable character of our Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, with the unfounded controversy of corruption.
Today, the entire world has seen that the real Mr SPV; the Corruption kingpin, the real ‘artful dodger’ of Nigeria is Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the ‘emilokan’ Presidential Candidate of the APC.
Tinubu, according to Ologbondiyan, hired Achimugu to serve as a distraction when he realized his corrupt activities were about to be exposed.
He claimed Tinubu has been desperately trying to divert attention away from his alleged use of Alpha Beta Consulting Limited and Alpha Beta LPP, companies he allegedly owned by proxy, to steal N100 billion in Lagos State tax money since 2002.
According to the PDP stalwart, Nigerians are now aware of how Alpha Beta held the exclusive right to collect taxes in Lagos State in exchange for a commission through very shady arrangements through which it allegedly siphoned billions of naira belonging to Lagos State.
Bola Tinubu, sensing that his many corrupt activities, especially his fleecing of Lagos State with many Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) companies was about to come to light, rushed to hire a serial blackmailer, as he has always done, to foul the public space with fabricated allegations against Atiku Abubakar.
The public is now aware of a petition before an anti-corruption agency wherein Tinubu’s alleged SPV company was reported to have used another company which shares same address with Tinubu’s office on Idowu Taylor Street in Lagos to launder Lagos State funds.
Documents sighted in one of the anti-corruption agencies reveals that Tinubu’s SPV allegedly laundered over N20 billion ($46.5m) in different currencies to several companies, including payment of N1bn ($2.3m) to company that is widely known to belong to him.