The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stopped short of describing the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku a serial liar but suggested he is deceitful.
Atiku came under Ngige’s veiled attack was against the backdrop of the Vice President’s overt electoral promise of restructuring the country if elected and alleged covert understanding he reached with the leadership of the Igbos not to seek re-election in 2023.
Speaking on Tuesday at the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Office in Awka, the Anambra State capital, while addressing stakeholders and candidates of the All Progressives Congress, the Labour minister hit out at Atiku saying, “The restructuring my good friend, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party is promising is a deceit. Again, Atiku said he would do one tenure and go. This is another deceit. No Nigerian would do that.
“President Olusegun Obasanjo agreed with some ex-generals who made him President that he would only do one term but we all saw how he wanted to do a third term.
“Restructuring by the PDP is a proper deceit because the issue of restructuring is a constitutional matter. Nobody can do it unilaterally without recourse to the National Assembly. Restructuring is a broad area.”
