By Ademola Adebayo
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a swipe at the just emerged candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year’s presidential election Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing him as “no match to Atiku Abubakar, and only desperate to clinch the keys to the nation’s treasury”.
The PDP in a statement on Wednesday through its National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunabga in Abuja said the party sympathizes with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for embarking on a journey to nowhere as he is no match for the PDP’s more popular, more competent and more prepared presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who defeated President Buhari fair and square in the 2019 Presidential election.
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“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) mocks Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for clinching at very great price, the Presidential ticket of the moribund, decrepit and crippled All Progressives Congress (APC), which has since served out its purpose as a fraudulent contraption that brought in the failed, corrupt and rudderless administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Asiwaju will soon realize that Nigeria is not one of his acquired estates or fiefdoms and that the Nigerian people are not his political string-puppets and retinue of lackies, from whom he bought the APC Presidential ticket.
“Asiwaju will also soon realize that Nigerians hold him responsible for his self-confessed role in installing the failed Buhari-led administration that subjugated the people, brought excruciating economic hardship, acute poverty, bloodletting, terrorism, mass killings, promoted disunity, tribalism and nepotism, lawlessness, massive treasury looting and unpardonable life-discounting experiences to our country”, the statement read in part.
The PDP stated that Bola Tinubu’s acceptance speech manifested lack of capacity, presence of mind, resourcefulness and selflessness to manage the affairs of a nation as complex as Nigeria.
It went further to say that Senator Tinubu’s egotistic outbursts before and after the APC manipulative National Convention, was crystal clear that his life-long dream of clinching the APC Presidential ticket was not for the wellbeing of Nigerians but out of desperation to lay hands on the keys to the nation’s treasury.
“Asiwaju has insulted the sensibilities of Nigerians enough and this APC National Convention will be his final political outing. This is because Nigerians have had enough and are now, more than ever before, ready and out on the platform of the PDP to defend our nation and reject Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the 2023 Presidential election.
“The Nigerian politics is far more complex and beyond the Lagos politics where Asiwaju operates with brawl and deployment of violence rather than brain.
“What Nigerians needs now is a unifier in the face of the pain and discomfort inflicted on them by Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his live band of APC looters and mean human beings. He needs to know that Nigeria is not Lagos”, the statement concluded.
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