A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and close associate of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Oladimeji Fabiyi, has slammed Senator Abba Moro over his comments on why the PDP lost the 2023 presidential election.
Fabiyi, in a strongly worded statement on Friday, described Senator Moro’s position as “misleading, shameless and a deliberate distortion of truth.”
The reaction followed Moro’s recent interview, where the Senate Minority Leader alleged that the party’s defeat in 2023 was due to fielding Atiku as its presidential candidate.
But Fabiyi faulted the remark, accusing the Benue-born Senator of dishonesty and of pushing what he called “a fallacious narrative to please his paymaster.”
“It is disappointing to see people who should know better peddling cheap lies, blackmail and propaganda. Abba Moro perhaps forgot to mention the roles he and his paymaster, Nyesom Wike, alongside the so-called G5 governors, played in sabotaging the party during the elections,” Fabiyi declared.
He further accused the group of betraying the PDP under the guise of advocating for southern presidency while secretly pursuing selfish interests.
According to him, the actions of Moro, Wike and the G5 “mortgaged the soul of the PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu.”
Fabiyi noted that instead of taking responsibility for their actions, the group has resorted to shifting blame on Atiku, whom he defended as “a leader who neither failed the party nor the country.”
“How ridiculous could it be for a former minister and serving senator to still hustle for survival? Posterity will judge them. Rather than attack Tinubu, who is running the country aground, they attack Atiku, who is not even the President,” he added.
Fabiyi insisted that those he described as “saboteurs” were the real reason the PDP lost in 2023, stressing that Atiku Abubakar remains the party’s hope in the next general election.
“Now that they have confirmed their support for Tinubu through reckless zoning to the South, we wait to see where it leads them. But whatever their sinister plans may be, one inescapable fact is that Atiku is coming,” he concluded
