Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that he does not blame President Muhammadu Buhari for the scarcity of petrol and new naira notes.
Tinubu said on Wednesday during the APC presidential campaign in Abeokuta, Ogun State, that there were attempts to undermine the 2023 elections and his triumph in the upcoming elections.
Tinubu said that the prolonged gasoline crisis and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) currency redesign were part of a plan to derail the election and his projected triumph.
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Reacting, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, and the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Tinubu was using the problems as an excuse for his impending defeat.
Tinubu, through his Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, claimed in a statement on Thursday that he was simply raising Buhari’s notice to possible PDP saboteurs.
According to Onanuga, no political coercion or attempt by the PDP campaign to create a schism between Tinubu and Buhari, his long-term ally, will succeed.
The statement reads: “For a presidential candidate who cares about the suffering of our people, he has a duty to warn the government that its efforts to make life better for Nigerians are being sabotaged on several front.
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“How does an advisory genuinely made by Asiwaju Tinubu to protect and create goodwill for the government of his party become an attack? It can only be so in the jaundiced view of the PDP.
“It is in this light we found amusing the directionless Atiku campaign’s bagful of mischief in their hurriedly put-together press statement meant to gain shameful mileage from the suffering of Nigerians.
“PDP and Atiku should remember not to get high on their own smoke. No political blackmail and an attempt to create a conflict between Tinubu and his long-term ally, President Muhammadu Buhari can succeed.
“The Atiku rudderless campaign, always seeking cheap shots and easy ways has again woefully attempted to make a mountain out of a molehill from the comments made by Asiwaju Tinubu in Abeokuta.
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“As a patriotic and compassionate leader, Asiwaju Tinubu will not stomach seeing ordinary Nigerians being made to face excessive difficulties over mundane issues due to activities of petrol and currency hoarders.”
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