The Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council has satirised the comment of the former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Malam Usman Yusuf, saying that some politicians have continued to struggle for space in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
The Campaign Council said it was a comedy or error for the likes of Yusuf to reduce important statecraft such as the Asiwaju Presidential campaign with the false ethnic sentiment that cannot be equated with any reality.
It countered as a false narrative, the interview granted by Yusuf, where he said that Tinubu will not campaign in the southeast zone.
Spokesman of PCC in South East, Dr. Josef Onoh who responded to Yusuf’s statement stated that the former NHIS boss was finding it difficult to drop his habit of going to the press with false information, noting that it was for a similar reason that Yusuf was relieved of his previous appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said that Yusuf has a penchant for misplacing facts, and he said the former NHIS boss has not learned any lesson from his known gaffes.
Onoh said that Yusuf lacked knowledge when he quoted an old statement made long ago before Tinubu made southeast his presidential campaign base and recalled that the states of Imo and Ebonyi were southeast states where Tinubu commenced his presidential campaign, and was the first presidential candidate to campaign in the southeast, starting with Town Hall meetings and rallies in Imo and Ebonyi states that witnessed tremendous gatherings.
He added that Yusuf was among the few politicians in the country who lacked the knowledge of Asiwaju’s nationalist character, stating that Tinubu has tremendous respect for the southeast in the manner he regards other zones in high esteems.
According to Onoh, Tinubu had utilized several opportunities to demonstrate his recognition of the southeast, even before his emergence as Lagos State Governor in 1999, also recalling that in the days of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Tinubu worked with many South East Progressives such as his late Father, His Excellency, Chief C.C Onoh, and others who staked their lives to ensure that democracy thrived in Nigeria.
Onoh, therefore, urged supporters of Asiwaju’s in the southeast to ignore the words of Yusuf which he described as words of a lost political adventurer operating and guided by the aid of a damaged compass on a ship sailing towards a Bermuda triangle.
