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National leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, National Leader, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of lying at the age of 80 years.
Kwankwaso accused Atiku of lying to some Northern clerics and political leaders about reaching an agreement on the presidency.
In an interview with the Hausa Service of Radio France International, Kwankwaso said: “I was deeply angered about the information.
“Elderly people aged 70 to 80 years will sit and lie, telling clerics and other leaders something that never happened.
“I am still alive and healthy, there is no way you can assemble over 40 people without me having two or three among them that will inform me of what transpired in the meeting.
“This is not good for a personality to lie. In such incident, if a government is formed on the basis of lies, it’s like starting a foundation on a weak structure.
“With these lies, we can’t believe such people that they can only serve one term in office if you entrust them with leadership.”
In other news, The Minister of Federal Capital Territory and former Rivers State Governor Nyesome Wike has attacked one of his predecessors, ex-Rivers State Governor Peter Odili, saying he brought the latter back to life in state politics after years of being in a comatose state.
Wike disclosed this on Sunday in a trending video on X.
His comments come amid recent remarks by Odili that Governor Siminilayi Fubara of Rivers State stopped Wike from making the state his private estate.
Reacting, Wike said: “What our former governor said is unfortunate. This is somebody who is supposed to be an elder statesman and a father. He said the president has been able to stop one politician, one man who wants to convert Rivers State to his personal estate.
“You remember when I was a governor, Odili praised me to high heavens. In fact, he said no governor combined has done what I did. Why in 2007, when he left power, he couldn’t be near power because Ameachi was in power? He was gone. When I came in as governor in 2015, I brought him back to life.”
This comes as Wike said he is focused on his assignment as Minister of Federal Capital Territory.