The African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said he is fit and healthy, dismissing age concerns ahead of the 2027 presidential election, adding that President Bola Tinubu was 90 years old.
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Reacting to Atiku’s age jibe at President Tinubu, Reno Omokri, Ambassador-designate to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, posted a picture of Tinubu and Dele Momodu taken in 1996.
Omokri surmised that if Atiku is saying Tinubu is 90, then Momodu should then be in his 80s now.
Atiku
“Do I look to you like someone who has reached 80 years of age?” he asked the BBC Hausa interviewer.
He had been asked if his age would not affect his ability to provide effective leadership if elected.
The interviewer noted that Atiku would be “almost or nearly 80 years old” by the time Nigerians vote in 2027, and asked what he would say to those who considered him too old.
He responded: “You went and voted for someone who is 80, I mean 90 years old. How old is President Bola, 90?”
When the interviewer corrected him, saying Tinubu was not yet 80, Atiku responded, “Do I look to you like someone who has reached 80 years of age?”
Reno Omokri
Posting the picture, Omokri wrote: “This is a photo of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Dele Momodu taken in London in 1996.
“If Asiwaju is indeed 90 years old, as recently alleged, then Dele Momodu must be in his eighties.
“Look at the photo yourself. I have not altered it in any way. Dele Momodu is alive to testify to the authenticity of this photograph and the date and place where it was taken.
“Does His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, look like a sixty-year-old in this photo?
“If Asiwaju is indeed ninety years of age, then he would have been sixty when this photo was taken exactly thirty years ago.
“I urge objective Nigerians and citizens of the world to again look at this photo. Does the gentleman on the right look sixty? Does he even look fifty?
“I remind Dele Momodu that, by his own admission, Asiwaju was good to him when he was in exile from the Abacha regime.
“Mr Momodu is free to support whichever candidate he chooses.
“But will it be morally acceptable for Dele Momodu to watch idly by as a man who was once his benefactor, and who he once referred to as his friend, is being accused of being a nonagenarian suffering from ill health?” he said.
On opposition
Also, Atiku said it was wrong to claim he had become an obstacle to the opposition coalition.
“That is a baseless accusation levelled against me. I was actually the one who initiated the coalition. Nobody else. I, Atiku Abubakar, started it,” he said.
He added that Peter Obi, and his running mate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, are the two major opposition figures who had left the group.
“It was just Kwankwaso… he was with us at first, then he left.
“Yes, and also Peter Obi. It’s just them, but the rest of us are still here continuing our work.”
Atiku expressed optimism that they would all still work together for the good of the country.
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