The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has called on the All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu to be mindful of his choice of words.
The PDP was reacting to the
former Lagos Governor’s remarks on Olusegun Obasanjo, following the former
President’s public letter, in which he raised several allegations against
President Buhari.
The PDP said the former Governor
was disrespectful and reckless in his comment against Obasanjo.
PDP in a statement by its
National spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “Tinubu in his tirade against the
former President sounded like a disrobed ruler facing a pang of defeat as he
watches his empire being legitimately taken.
“It is shocking that Asiwaju of
Lagos can be in cahoots with President Muhammadu Buhari, who has always been in
league with all known dictators, while at the same time claiming to be on the
side of democrats.
“It is however not a surprise
that Tinubu is in severe pain because President Obasanjo exposed their rigging plans.
Asiwaju had always won elections for himself and his cronies through rigging
and this account for his bitterness.
“His reliance on rigging was
typified in the Osun election where results were manipulated in order not to
‘disgrace’ the fading politics of the Asiwaju of Lagos.
“Let it be placed on record that
the story of that election has not been fully told by Tinubu in his snide
remarks against President Obasanjo.
“He chose to be silent on that
phone call which was clandestinely put across to Abuja, consequent upon which
the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared an election
already won by the PDP, as inconclusive. Since the matter is in court, we will
not join Tinubu in abusing court processes.”
The main opposition party called
on Tinubu to search his conscience and come up with a denial that he shares no
closeness with Atiku.
“It is also important to state
that Atiku Abubakar did not claim to have rigged election in the South-West,”
the party added.
“However, if Tinubu today denies
his affinity with Atiku Abubakar, which is well known in the entire nation,
then he can deny even his own existence.
“it is an established fact that
Obasanjo remains a statesman and a global figure who always speak the truth to
power and put the interest of our nation above all.”
On the commitment to anti-graft
war, the party further noted that “President Obasanjo and PDP genuinely fought
corruption in this country.
“With the establishment of
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC,
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Special Fraud Intelligence
Unit, SFIU in the police as well as the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence
Corps, NSCDC, to investigate economic crimes and corruption activities as well
as trial of Nigerians believed to have committed wrongdoings.
“Under President Obasanjo, there
were no sacred cows in the fight against corruption, unlike what we are
witnessing today, in which corruption has become pervasive under the nose of
President Buhari in the presidential villa.
The party further said it was
ridiculous “that Tinubu can attempt to justify the sharing of N10, 000 each to
traders, in the market by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
“Asiwaju of Lagos has not read
and like President Buhari is also unaware that the same poor people which
Osinbajo claimed to be helping with his ‘tradermoni’ voodoo, chased him out of
the UTC market in Abuja.
“It is imperative to ask Tinubu
if he saw the cartoon making the round, where poor people were depicted
thronging around him with paltry N10,000 in their hands while he sat on his
throne with full chicken in his hands and telling the famished lot that he has
nothing to offer them.
“Nigerians already know that
their help is not in the hands of people like Asiwaju of Lagos and President
Buhari, who are amassing wealth for themselves and their generations yet
unborn, while the people live in squalor
“In modern day governance,
leaders do not give handouts to the citizens, they create enabling environment
for them to prosper.
“We challenge Asiwaju of Lagos to
go round the markets of Idumota, Alaba, Ikeja Yaba and ask the traders if the
N10, 000 has yielded them the profit to purchase hotels, oil companies,
airlines, and tax collecting agencies.
“Since Asiwaju of Lagos
understands the reason for collation of PVC numbers in exchange for the N10,
000 trader money, he will do the nation good, especially at this time, if he
provides explanation for this joint venture outside rigging of elections.
“It is shameful that Tinubu can
compare any administration in the history of our nation to the Buhari
administration.
“Nigerians have never been this
hungry, our purchasing power has never been this low, our fault lines have
never been this manifest and our nation has never been turned into a huge
funeral parlour as we have witnessed under President Buhari’s incompetent,
divisive and colossally corrupt administration.
“At no time in our history had
Nigerians gone to the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos to take a plunge to
death.”
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