Tinubu Transition Committee: VON DG Blasts Atiku, Reveals Why PDP Flagbearer Lost Presidential Poll

• The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has faulted Atiku Abubakar's comment on president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition committee
• Okechukwu termed the PDP flagbearer's comment as "political hypocrisy", noting Atiku’s attempt to play the advocate for Igbo interest amounts to shed­ding of Crocodile tears
• The APC scribe, however, revealed Atiku recorded a major loss in the recent election because he betrayed the South Easterners

A founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC), has de­scribed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s attack on president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition as political hypocrisy.

It could be recalled Atiku, the presidential candidate of Peo­ples Democratic Party (PDP) in the recent election had decried the absence of any Igbo person on the membership list of Tinu­bu’s transition committee.

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Okechukwu, DG Voice of Nigeria blasts Atiku over comment on Tinubu's transition committee list

Reacting to Atiku’s statement, Okechukwu, who is also the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), said Atiku’s attempt to play the advocate for Igbo interest amounts to shed­ding of Crocodile tears, Daily Independent reported.

He recalled how the former Vice President brazenly breached the zoning ar­rangement in PDP and the zon­ing convention of president from north to south and vice versa.

Maintaining that Atiku’s attempts to stand in for Ndigbo is a clear example of medicine after death, Okechukwu noted that Atiku’s betrayal of Ndigbo during the PDP presidential pri­mary election was the deepest and unkindest cut, The Sun newspaper report added.

In his message to felicitate Muslims over the Eid-el-Fitr celebration, Atiku called for prayers for Nigeria.

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Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, has expressed his worries over the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate lamented that the outcome has deeply divided Nigeria.

In his message to felicitate Muslims over the Eid-el-Fitr celebration, Atiku called for prayers for Nigeria.

Ex-Rangers player sends crucial message to Tinubu ahead of inauguration

As the May 29, 2023 presidential inauguration draws closer, an ex-Rangers player, Emeka Raphael, has called on the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to invest adequately in sports development.

Emeka, former Gabros and Jasper captain, who was known in the sports field as Sir Raphy, made the call on Sunday, April 23rd, during the official opening of Sunshine Residence, hospitality home in Nnewi, Anambra state.

Legit.ng's regional reporter in Anambra, Mokwugwo Solomon, quoted Sir Raphy as saying that sports development was neglected in the country in the past 8 years, and suggested that the incoming administration should do everything possible to improve sports for the benefit of the younger generation, and for the overall wellbeing of Nigerians.

Source: Legit.ng