A response to unwarranted attack on me by Atiku’s camp

There is absolutely no reason for those around Waziri Atiku Abubakar to fight with someone who only has the utmost respect for the former Vice President and has never had an unkind word to say about him overtly or covertly.

That I will never respond to them in kind is not for want of ability. Media-wise, there is no asset at their disposal that I do not have at mine, at an equal or greater capacity.

Yes, I support President Bola Tinubu and forcefully so because he is delivering the results we in the Peoples Democratic Party said we were going to achieve: fuel subsidy removal, Naira flotation, devolution of power, and loans to students.

Our goal is Nigeria’s progress. When the incumbent President is meeting that purpose, then, in my judgment, those who share a vision for Nigeria’s achievable greatness should support such a leader.

It does not matter if the cat is Black or White, as long as it catches mice, and it matters not if the party in power is APC or PDP, as long as it delivers progress for the Nigerian nation.

In case Nigerians have forgotten, the APC is not an ideologically driven party. It is a coalition. The ideologically driven parties were the legacy parties, including the ACN, CPC, ANPP, and nPDP.

To show how congruent Waziri Atiku Abubakar’s political and economic ideology is with the ACN founded by Asiwaju Tinubu, one only needs to be reminded that he was their Presidential candidate in 2007, when ACN was known as AC.

Regarding ideology, President Bola Tinubu and Waziri Atiku are both of the 1989 Social Democratic Party stock, and there is little or no difference between them.

There are multiple precedents for moving political support from one bloc to another based on Nigeria’s best interest.

In 2014, major political stakeholders who had previously supported President Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party felt that a realignment with General Muhammadu Buhari and the then-burgeoning All Progressives Congress was the best alternative for the country.

That decision was taken, and neither then-President Jonathan nor his media team excoriated them. To this day, President Jonathan, whom I served and who praised me in his autobiography, My Transition Hours, for unwavering loyalty, has never attacked those who made such decisions.

In the course of working to actualise the vision of Waziri Atiku Abubakar, I have never betrayed confidential information and do not have any plans for such in the future.

Despite what happened after 2023, nobody can say I have attempted to profit privately or publicly from such confidences, whether politically or economically. And I never will.

Additionally, I have refrained from crossing swords with those around Waziri Atiku Abubakar, some of whom I recruited, which is why I find it odd that they would do so to me.

Waziri Atiku Abubakar may want to think about the quality of media people he engages if they fight people who do not fight him.

To therefore attack me, when I have never even as much as said one negative word about Waziri or his immediate coterie, is most unkind. Nevertheless, I will not respond in kind.

Waziri Atiku Abubakar has been good to me, and I will still be true to the friendship that led to the confidence he reposes in me.

I will say to these people who do not understand how to disagree without being disagreeable that nobody profits from a mud fight. And nobody knows tomorrow.

Finally, I thank Waziri Atiku Abubakar for the confidence he reposed in me. I note his last conversation with me in which he spoke glowingly about me, and therefore, I choose to suffer the insults hurled at me without any retaliation.

I am only observing restraint out of respect, not out of cowardice.

As for Peter Obi, nobody in Waziri Atiku’s media team is my peer, or big enough to stop me from saying what I want to say, when I want to say it, and how I want to say it about Mr. Obi.

As long as Obi takes on President Tinubu, I will tackle him.