Tinubu not fit to be President, PDP alleges

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation (PCO) has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, lacks the fitness to preside over the affairs of Nigeria as President.

Spokesman of the PCO, Charles Aniagwu, said in an interview, yesterday, that Tinubu was being foisted on Nigerians for selfish reasons, urging them to reject the APC candidate because of the lack of capacity to articulate issues.

“Tinubu’s many gaffes in recent times buttress the argument that he lacks the alertness to lead a county in troubled times. His inability to carry on his campaigns seamlessly is a pointer to the fact that he is being managed, and that is not the kind of leader Nigerians deserve at this time.”

While admitting that Tinubu used to be a great leader, whose contributions to nation-building in the past could not be wished away, he added: “A situation where a presidential candidate cannot speak coherently for only two minutes calls for serious concern. That is why we can hardly hear from our brother, Festus Keyamo, again because the kind of things he defends is already becoming an embarrassment to the legal profession.”

Aniagwu further remarked that the abrupt departure of the APC candidate from the Minna rally indicated that all was not well with him. He added: “I am happy that President Muhammadu Buhari is not following them about in this campaign because he saw that the APC governors did not see what he saw prior to the party primary when they stopped Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a man that has demonstrated great intellectualism, from clinching the party’s ticket.”

Aniagwu further said that having realised they had failed Nigerians, the APC always lay claims to Lagos as part of their achievements, even as Lagos was built over time by the Federal Government.

His words: “Each time you ask them to give account of their party’s stewardship, they refer you to Lagos that was built by the Federal Government as a former federal capital? Or is it the Lagos that you will spend five hours for a journey, which should not take not more than 30 minutes?”

“They talk about the Lagos economy and I ask who collects the tax, and does the tax reflect in the lives of the citizens? A Lagos that Nasir el-Rufai, an APC governor, had amply described as a living hell’?

“These people don’t believe that Nigeria should get out of the cocoon. So, I appeal to Nigerians to reject the APC and all what it represents.”