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…Hails former President as a global figure
By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA- The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has
called on the All Progressives Congress, APC,
national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be
mindful of the choice of his words when making
statements about the country’s foremost
nationalists.
The party was reacting to Tinubu’s remarks on
President Olusegun Obasanjo following the latter’s
public letter in which he questioned the fitness of
the President for the exalted office beyond 2019.
Describing the former governor’s comments as
disrespectful and reckless, PDP in a statement by
its 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.”
The statement read: “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.”
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The party also called on Tinubu to search his
conscience and come up with a denial that he
shares not closeness with Atiku.
“It is also important to state that Atiku Abubakar
did not claim to have rigged election in the
South-West. 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,” the statement continued, adding
that “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, saying it believe that
“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.
Osinbajo and the politicians who went to
Dubai
“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
colleting 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.”
Source:
www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/pdp-
chides-tinubu-over-comments-on-obasanjo/