Bugaje rebukes PDP chairman for attacking VP

From KABIRU YUSUF, Abuja

THE Deputy Director General of the Atiku Campaign Organization, Dr. Usman Bugaje, has accused Colonel Ahmadu Ali, chairman, People’s Democratic Party (PDP), of amnesia, for launching an attack on Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday.
Ahmadu Ali had called Atiku a “dictator” and accused him of abandoning the PDP because of his opposition to the reforms of the federal government.
Atiku asked Nigerians last Saturday to fight the nation’s slide into dictatorship, while addressing associates and supporters who gave him a tumultuous welcome and several kilometres long motorcade escort from the Abuja airport to his residence.
Dr Bugaje, who is also the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs reminded the Colonel how he (Ali) described the PDP as a “garrison” which is obviously run in a regimental fashion.
The lawmaker, who is the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress (AC), in Katsina state, said Atiku initiated the current reforms of the federal government while he was political adviser to the Vice President.
He added that the Obasanjo hijacked the reforms programme and handed it over to some aides, some of whom have proved to be incompetent and mismanaged it, depriving Nigerians of the intended benefits, leaving them only with the pain.
“Where was Ali when Atiku was initiating the reforms?”, he asked. “Hanging around the villa, looking for a job”, Bugaje retorted. “Now he has got a command, he has been playing the role of the surrogate so well”, Bugaje concluded.