Atiku’s Camp Slams Oshiomhole, APC’s ‘Legacy of Failure’

*Former VP’s ally, Fabiyi, quits PDP 

Chuks Okocha in Abuja 

The camp of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, launched a blistering counterattack on Senator Adams Oshiomhole, accusing the former national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC of “weaponising noise to mask the catastrophic failures” of the party.

Oshiomhole had branded Atiku a defection expert, following the former vice-president’s official registration with the African Democratic Congress (ADC), having ditched the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In a statement by Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication to the former vice-president, Phrank Shaibu, the camp said Oshiomhole had no moral standing to question Atiku’s leadership credentials, insisting that the APC senator should “check the mirror before speaking.”

Shaibu argued that Oshiomhole was attempting to distract Nigerians from what he described as “the monumental failures of the APC, the very party he helped foist on Nigeria, and the same party that has driven the country to its worst state in decades.”

The statement dismissed Oshiomhole’s remarks as “a tired distraction,” insisting that Atiku, as vice-president, was neither national chairman of the PDP nor a dictator presiding over a one-man political empire.

Shaibu stressed that, unlike the APC, the PDP was never run as a “private estate controlled from Bourdillon,” and that Atiku operated within a democratic institution where decisions were not “tele-guided by one individual.”

His words: “If Oshiomhole seeks the man who ‘fixed a party’ into a personal empire, he needs only look at the godfather he serves. Under the APC, party supremacy died, dissent was criminalised, and institutions of state became partisan weapons. That is the only kind of ‘fixing’ Oshiomhole understands,” he stated.

The statement defended Atiku’s national record, describing him as a leader whose achievements remained unmatched.

It recalled that Atiku chaired the National Economic Council, rebuilt investor confidence, strengthened the private sector and midwifed reforms that reshaped Nigeria’s economy.

“He has never been President, yet his development blueprint remains the most coherent Nigeria has seen in decades,” Shaibu maintained.