The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has picked holes in a
recent comment by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
In a video making the rounds on social media, Tinubu had
while fielding questions from journalists on how he would tackle climate change
if elected president, said “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from
eating poisoned holy communion.”
“We are a poor nation. They say firewood is not for fetch.
They say we need to plant more trees and they are not giving us money.
“We need to tell the West, if you don’t guarantee our
finances and work with us to stop this, we are not going to comply with your
climate change”, Tinubu said.
Concerned Nigerians have dragged the former Lagos governor
on social media asking him to retract his comment on Holy Communion and
apologize to Nigerian Christians.
Reacting, PDP, in a statement issued by the spokesperson of
the party’s Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Dino Melaye, tacked
Tinubu saying the comment depicted an insult on Christians.
Dino lamented that after ignoring the Christian faith and
fielded Muslim-Muslim ticket, the APC presidential candidate has further
“rubbed insult on injury by calling in the Holy Communion into an unrelated
conversation”.
He said, “the APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu,
plunged into new depths of desecration when by an unguarded and unrelated flow
of thought he despised the body of Christ by profaning the sacrament of
communion and besmirched the church.
“Having overlooked Christians in his choice of a running
mate, he further rubbed insult on injury by calling in the Holy Communion into
an unrelated conversation”.
According to Dino, Asiwaju’s response to the question on
climate change, exposed his ignorance of what climate change really means.
The statement reads, “Furthermore, he fell out of tune with
world leaders in ways that betrayed a lack of understanding of what the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr called the “Fierce Urgency of Now”.
“It would have been honourable for Tinubu to simply admit
that he didn’t know what climate change is. Again, that exposed his limited
understanding and poor preparation for governance.
“Any leader of any great nation who does not understand the
basics of climate change, especially with the ongoing flooding in Nigeria and
the economic conflict arising from farmers and herders, has no business
aspiring to lead our dear country at this moment.
“Besides, Nigerians who have been in doubt about the
presence of mind and the physiological capacity of Tinubu to preside over the
affairs of Nigeria should now be convinced that he is not fit.
“For a moment, his thought processes tripped and he launched
into another issue entirely. Nigerians could imagine if what happened in Kaduna
had happened on the world stage. As I said earlier, Nigerians can not afford to
gamble with the next election.
“An Atiku presidency will not only be at home with global
issues anywhere and anytime. He would build bridges and partnerships to address
contemporary and emerging issues with pace, purpose and patience.
“He will collaborate with others to contain the causes and
effects of climate change and more importantly, he will work for structures
that will help Nigeria to build the resilience and adaptation to climate
change, particularly in climate smart agriculture and other strategic
initiatives”.
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