Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a party of forgers and riggers.
New Telegraph reports that Atiku had a closed-door meeting with former Nigerian Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, which lasted for almost two hours as journalists and supporters waited at the gate of IBB mansion.
Responding to the tax reforms and gazetted tax reforms by the President Bola Tinubu-led government, Atiku said: “What do you expect? APC generally is a party of forgers and riggers.”
According to him, he said: “They forge everything, they forge certificates, they forge age limits, they forge everything. So, that is the hallmark of APC.”
Atiku, while speaking with journalists, said the decision of the Senate after its emergency plenary on the elections reforms is a mixture of electronic and manual transmission, which is going to cause more confusion.
According to him: “First and foremost, it is actually below the expectation of Nigerians, because Nigerians were expecting real-time transmission of results of elections at the various levels.
“What we got is a mixture of electronic and manual transmission, which is going to cause more confusion and chaos than if we had a single-tier electronic transmission of the results.”
He then called on all political parties to come together, saying: “We must come together to pursue this issue. We shouldn’t allow it to rest where they wanted it to rest today. Absolutely not, I don’t support that.”
The former six-time presidential candidate, while responding to whether he would run for the 2027 presidential elections, said: “The question of contesting the 2027 election does not even arise. I am a member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and we are busy trying to make sure that our structures are firmly rooted at the ward, local, state, and national levels.
He added: “We are busy mobilising and our people are registering at the same time.”
The former Vice President also disclosed the ADC does not have issues with zoning of positions, adding that: “The only party that has zoning in its constitution is the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).”
Also, the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, declined to speak with journalists as he also had a separate closed-door meeting with General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
