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The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council (ADC-PCC) Monday told the vice-presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso, to stop attacking the ADC presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
The party charged him to redirect his energy towards holding the ruling APC accountable, while insisting that his reaction has lately raised questions about his political alignment with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In a statement made available to Blueprint.ng in Abuja by the director, Media and Publicity, ADC-PCC, Kola Ologbondiyan, the council stated that, as an opposition figure, Kwankwaso should be challenging the Tinubu administration over economic hardship, insecurity and declining living standards confronting Nigerians, rather than repeatedly targeting Atiku and the ADC.
Ologbondiyan noted in the statement that Kwankwaso’s response had failed to address the substance of the council’s concerns.
ADC-PCC said Kwankwaso casually mentioned the APC in his defence but devoted much of his response to attacking the ADC, a development it said raised questions about his priorities as an opposition leader.
“Why is Senator Kwankwaso making our candidate the issue instead of confronting the ruling APC, whose policies have made life increasingly difficult for millions of Nigerians?” the council asked.
It argued that Nigerians were more concerned about hunger, insecurity, high fuel prices, the depreciation of the naira, and economic hardship than political exchanges among opposition figures.
The council insisted that these national challenges should be the priority of any politician genuinely committed to providing an alternative to the current administration.
It further challenged Kwankwaso to explain why his political attacks appeared more frequently directed at Atiku and the ADC than at the ruling party.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the ADC cannot and will not be distracted by Senator Kwankwaso,” the council declared.
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