Daily Trust· 1h ago· 1 min read
Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has described as a monumental own goal the Presidency's attempt to invoke China in attacking him, saying the comparison has only exposed President Bola Tinubu to even greater public scrutiny.
In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said it was ironic that while the Presidency has been busy parading the United States Government's routine reply to its diplomatic correspondence as though it were a love letter, a trophy and a certificate of innocence rolled into one, its spokesman carelessly introduced China into a conversation where the comparison immediately rebounds against his own principal.
“It takes a peculiar kind of unintelligence for a spokesman to set out to drag an opponent before a hypothetical Chinese court, only to end up dragging his…
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