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Comrade Timi Frank has criticized former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo for his repeated public attacks on Atiku Abubakar. Frank argues that Obasanjo is using Atiku as a political scapegoat to avoid taking responsibility for the failures of his own administration.
Why it matters
Reflects ongoing political tensions and historical accountability debates within Nigerian governance.
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of turning former Vice President Atiku Abubakar into an election-year scapegoat every four years.
Frank said this while reacting to Obasanjo's latest attack on the Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Speaking at the unveiling of the foundation of Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, Obasanjo had said picking Atiku as running mistake was the biggest mistake he made as president.
But in a strongly worded statement, Frank described Obasanjo’s repeated attacks on Atiku as an “outdated blackmail pattern” which, according to him, Nigerians had become tired of.
He accused the former President of deliberately shifting blame to Atiku for the failures of an administration in which he himself wielded the ultimate constitutional authority.
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