Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) 2023 presidential nominee, has been dubbed a “paper candidate” by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The PDP also claimed that Tinubu is intimidated and perplexed by Atiku Abubakar, the rival candidate and former vice president.
The PDP spokesperson, Debo Ologunagba, made the assertion on Sunday in reaction to a claim made by Tinubu on Saturday that the APC is more intelligent and the PDP lacks direction.
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The former governor of Lagos State reportedly questioned why the PDP still exists while addressing on Saturday at the unveiling of the Tinubu/Shettima door-to-door campaign group in Abuja, according to Anaedoonline.ng.
The former governor of Lagos State claimed that the current APC is a more intelligent party and urged members not to worry about the opposition.
In reaction, Ologunagba claimed that Tinubu was just attempting to downplay the serious problems, deflect attention from the APC’s poor leadership, and inflame emotions.
The PDP spokesperson insisted that, come 2023, his party is prepared to deliver Nigeria from the misgovernance and hardships imposed on its inhabitants.
In the remark, he also said that Tinubu has a lot of dubious baggage hanging over his neck and is only hurting the APC’s chances in the elections of 2023.
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The statement reads: “Nigerians are appalled by yet another attempt by the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to divert attention from the main issues of the failures of the APC government by making derogatory remarks on the Peoples Democratic Party.
“Such fixation on the PDP only exposes Asiwaju Tinubu as a paper candidate who is confused, nervy and intimidated by the PDP’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the achievements of the PDP, which stare him in the face in mortal fear of failure ahead of the 2023 elections.”
Ologunagba asserted that the PDP is a living, growing party in contrast to Tinubu’s assertion that the APC is a dead party.
He continued by saying that while Tinubu is just attempting to defend a failed government, some of the excellent things accomplished by the PDP administration have been undone by the APC administration.
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However, the PDP spokesperson claimed that Nigerians are wiser and would never support the APC in elections in 2023.
In his words; “Unlike the APC that is dead, the PDP is not only alive and existing as acknowledged by Asiwaju Tinubu in his statement, but also strong, united and focused on its mission to Rescue, Rebuild and Redirect our nation from the misrule of the APC.
“It is distressing that Asiwaju Tinubu speaks like someone under the influence with incoherent discourse and absence of mind that further expose a lack of capacity for leadership, especially at the Presidential level.
“It is rather shameful that the APC Presidential Candidate alluded to the nation’s railway system which was revitalized by the PDP administration but painfully surrendered to terrorists and bandits by the APC government.
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“From his incoherent discourse, the APC Presidential Candidate appears to be battling with issues of ethical challenges and ineligibility to contest election on account of inconsistencies in his qualifications, name, ancestry, age, corruption allegations among myriads of issues.
“Moreover, Nigerians have realized the futility of Asiwaju’s non-existent and heavily concocted achievements, influence, leadership prowess and skills.
“Nigerians gave Asiwaju Tinubu the benefit of the doubt but he failed them by engineering a deceitful government leading to the ugly indices of insecurity and bloodletting, economic hardship, unemployment, disunity and low life expectancy imposed on our nation in the last 7 years.
“He should know that Nigerians are aware that he is in the Presidential race not to serve but to gain control of the nation’s treasury so as to expand his exploitative enterprise and economic empire beyond Lagos State.
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“The APC Presidential Candidate has not responded to allegations that he is the promoter of the increase in VAT, electricity tariff, import duties, Stamp Duty, fuel price hike as well as other exploitative tolls by the APC Federal Government, from which he allegedly benefits through many stooges in the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and other revenue generating agencies of government.
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