A support organization for the All Progressives Congress located in Kaduna, the Coalition of Support Groups for Tinubu/Uba Sani, has warned the Presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, against using the plight of the people for political benefit.
Additionally, the group warned Nigerians to be skeptical of Atiku, noting that he had often demonstrated his inability to honor promises.
In response to the widely reported claim that Atiku had given scholarships to the two children of the patriotic Nigerian who died while attempting to save those stranded in the Bayelsa flood, Mr. Mock Kure, the group’s Director General, made this statement in a press release distributed to newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday.
The group stated that when Dr. Silas Adamu, his wife Mercy Silas-Adam, and their daughter Miss Joy Silas tragically perished in an accident in Kaduna, the former Vice President instructed Amb. Aliyu Abbas, who is also Director General of the Atiku Care Foundation, to speak on his behalf and offer “automatic employment to the deceased’s eldest son, Kelvin, as well as scholarships to his two youngest children.”
“It is an established fact that till date, the PDP presidential candidate is yet to redeem his promise. He has gone ahead to make similar promise in Bayelsa State.
“We, therefore, wish to call on Nigerians with means who desire the help the orphaned children to go ahead and do so, as the PDP presidential candidate is only interested in the headlines, which will help him secure votes, not the plight of the children.”
“…his antecedent is laced with dots of unfulfilled promises,” Kure added.
