The former vice president Atiku was cautioned to stop playing god following his claims that his personality and money were instrumental to the emergence of Buhari as president during the 2015 general elections.
Complaints of neglect by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has been described as tissues of lies.
Atiku was on Friday accused of lying following his claim that the president has abandoned him after helping him to victory.
Inuwa Abdukadir, APC national vice chairman, who spoke to a few newsmen in Abuja on Friday on the issue noted that the former vice president was trying to ascribe to himself, the victory of Buhari at the poll.
According to him, the former vice president contributed but not much, to the victory of the president at the poll, and thus asked him to learn to be truthful in making his complaints.
Abdulkadri noted that there were other leaders who contributed to the electoral victory of Atiku, and thus, he should learn to accept his position as an elder in the party and behave as such.
“People of such status and reckoning in this country, particularly the former Vice President, of this great nation, has attained the position of a statesman and what we expect of him is nothing less than that.
“By virtue of his former office and his age, he is qualified to be a statesman but when you reach that statue and age there are certain things you have to come to terms with which is to exhibit a high sense of decorum in your conduct. You have to guard what you say, how you say it and when you say it because what is expected of you as a statesman is nothing but factual.
“Secondly, majority of the people look up to them to provide leadership in the sense that from what you say people can learn a lot.
“Of recent Atiku has made some statements to the effect that or create an impression of the failure of the party and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
“At that level, good party members, especially of his status should not be seen to be making public statements even if those criticisms are factual, whereas in this case some of these statements were misleading and incorrect.
“These statements give an impression as if there is a crack in the house and in the party or that the party is not doing all that which it ought.
“Secondly, his statements are ordinarily what I wouldn’t have responded to. As leaders, we shouldn’t be seen as joining issues in the public domain but since he has made a public statement, the public is entitled to get the other side or be told the truth.
“Yes, Atiku like many others made certain contributions in the 2015 elections and in building the party but the bigger picture which he gave is not correct.
“The north west zone which I represent had eight presidential campaign rallies which Atiku did not attend any.
“Yes, he added value by his personality, but there are so many other members of the party, that made financial contribution and added electoral value.
“North West is the most populous zone in terms of the APC membership and in terms of electoral victory, not only to the president but we have seven state governors and 20 out of the 21 senators in the zone are from the APC. I think we are critical and major stakeholders in this party.
“So one of the reasons we are making this statement is in order to calm our members in these states and for them not to be distracted and that APC is well on ground as all efforts are being made to solidify those gains and we shouldn’t be distanced by such unfortunate statements that the party is neglecting a particular person or group of persons.
“Some involve processes and you don’t expect everything to happen at the time. More importantly, there should be some decorum in what we do.
“People who have attained those high privileged positions should know that they have attained certain status in the society which they cannot afford to be talking any how.”
He also faulted the former vice president for saying he was not consulted by the president, saying that Atiku like every other party leaders go to the Presidential Villa and are attended to.
“On the issue of consultation by the Mr. President, though I am not in the Villa, it is an open secret that whoever visited the president is no longer a secret.
“Whoever is meeting the president of Nigeria more than 20 people will know and the information will be shared.
“As a matter of fact, several times, Atiku Abubakar has visited Mr. President and what they discussed, we don’t know but we know that he has visited. I am sure he is not just there to greet him. Those two leaders will not meet without discussing one thing or the other” Abdulkadri said further.
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