The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign
council says Bola Tinubu, candidate of the party, is “hale and hearty.”
The campaign council said this in reaction to a comment by
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in a now viral
video clip.
“This is your country. You don’t see the value of ‘let’s
have something better’. There will be confusion — and that’s it. And they will
support him because he gave them money. They will say ‘Jagaban is the best
candidate’, even when the man is not well,” Obi had said.
‘Jagaban’ is a nickname given to Tinubu by his supporters.
In a statement on Tuesday, Bayo Onanuga, the APC campaign’s
director of media and publicity, said Obi is elevating “beer parlor gossip and
social media lies being propagated by his IPOB supporters”.
“Obi in his characteristic manner is amplifying falsehood
which should not have a place in a decent political campaign,” Onanuga said.
“We believe that political leaders should be guided in their
utterances and be sticklers for the truth, but Obi has thrown all caution to
the wind, pronouncing on issues he has no moral and professional competence to
make a judgement call on.
“We want to make it
crystal clear to all the traducers of the All Progressives Congress
presidential candidate that Asiwaju Tinubu is not ill. He is hale and hearty.
“A man who works for 20 hours a day, meeting people and
strategising about finding solutions to Nigeria’s problems, cannot be said to
be ill. We make bold to say that our candidate is as fit as the fiddle.
“We also want to educate Peter Obi and his horde of gullible
followers that Tinubu’s millions of supporters countrywide are backing him not
because of any pecuniary benefit.
“Asiwaju Tinubu supporters are rooting for him because of
their strong belief in his demonstrable ability to provide progressive leadership
for our country.
“Coming so soon after
his gaffe and falsehood in accusing Tinubu of mobilising Yoruba voters not to
support him, Obi is coming across as a dangerous politician and a demagogue
capable of spewing all manners of lies just to get the votes.
“Already discredited with statistical lies and fallacies, Obi is now treading new ground, spreading lies with unfounded claims on Asiwaju Tinubu’s health.”
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