The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Thursday faulted remark by a national leader of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, asking Nigerians not to accept its recent apology.
Speaking during the colloquium in
honour of his 66th birthday in Lagos, Tinubu cautioned Nigerians against
accepting PDP’s apology.
In a swift reaction, PDP asked
Tinubu to “stop playing god as Nigerians have the faculty and freedom to
determine the leadership that best suit their desires without any body’s
control.”
In a statement issued by its
spokesperson, Kola Olagbondiyan, PDP advised Tinubu not to allow himself to be
used a second time as he “still bears a gross part of the blame for the
enthronement of this incompetent, divisive, nepotic and inherently corrupt administration
of President Muhammadu Buhari, which has brought the nation to its knees in
three years.”
Ologbondiyan stressed that Tinubu
indirectly admitted the “failure of President Buhari and the APC
administration.”
The party said without listening
to the prompting of any politician, Nigerians across board had taken the
liberty to accept PDP’s apology which was made “patriotically in the overall
interest of national healing, reconciliation, unity and cohesion.”
The statement reads, “The PDP
watched with amusement as Asiwaju Tinubu struggled with words to appease
President Buhari and give him assurances that he can win a second term election
in the face of mass failure both in governance and in their discredited,
rejected and troubled platform.
“It was a direct admittance of
failure and indictment on President Buhari’s administration, when Asiwaju
pointedly told the President that the ship of the nation, under his (Buhari’s)
watch, still needs to be rescued, almost three years down the line.
“It is tragic that Asiwaju had to
tutor his visitor, who had no policy direction since his election in 2015, by
engaging in a revision of the programmes and policies of the PDP, such as the
leasing system, the mortgage and pension schemes which boosted the economy and
directly impacted on the lives of Nigerians.
“More pathetic is the fact that
the APC leader presented the PDP programmes as if he was introducing novel
ideas in the economy. This clearly stood with our position that the APC
government is incompetent and lacking in ideas of how to move the nation
forward.
“While we congratulate the Lagos
Governor Emeritus on his birthday, the PDP considers it needful, to forewarn
him to study the current ambience of Nigerian politics as it relates to the
failures of the Buhari Presidency and the fact that the citizens have since
rejected this Presidency and the APC, so that Asiwaju will not find himself
swimming against the tide.”
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