The war of words and brickbats between the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is not going away anytime soon as Atiku has thrown a challenge to Tinubu, daring the former Lagos State Governor sit down and grant an hour long interview like he (Atiku) did last Friday, IgbereTV reports
The latest salvo from the Atiku camp was in response to a statement earlier on Saturday by the Tinubu Campaign Organisation (TCO) where the team attacked him on some of the issues he raised in the interview on Arise TV.
In the interview, Atiku had said Tinubu insisted on a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2007 when they were both in the Action Congress (AC) but in a reaction, TCO in a statement by its Director-General, Bayo Onanuga, had labelled Atiku a “pathological liar” who was “full of hypocrisy, spreading falsehood and of having a poor grasp of history and current affairs.”
While responding to the accusation by the TCO, Atiku’s media aide, Paul Ibe, in a statement on Saturday night, challenged Tinubu to “subject himself to an hour long interview” if he was “mentally present and articulate enough to do so.”
In the statement entitled “We Challenge Bola Tinubu To Take The Hot Seat,” Ibe said
