The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the All Progressives
Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to stop
playing god as Nigerians have the faculty and freedom to determine the
leadership that best suit their desires without any body’s control.
The party also advised Tinubu not to allow himself to be used a second
time as he still bears a gross part of the blame for the enthronement of
this incompetent, divisive, nepotic and inherently corrupt
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, which has brought the
nation to its knees in three years.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on
Thursday, said Asiwaju Tinubu’s speech, at his colloquium, rather than
being a damage of the PDP, ended up amplifying an admittance of the
failure of President Buhari and the APC administration.
The party said without listening to the prompting of any politician,
Nigerians across board have taken the liberty to accept PDP’s apology
which was made patriotically in the overall interest of national
healing, reconciliation, unity and cohesion.
The PDP watched with amusement as Asiwaju Tinubu struggled with words to
appease President Buhari and give him assurances that he can win a
second term election in the face of mass failure both in governance and
in their discredited, rejected and troubled platform.
It was a direct admittance of failure and indictment on President
Buhari’s administration, when Asiwaju pointedly told the President that
the ship of the nation, under his (Buhari’s) watch, still needs to be
rescued, almost three years down the line.
It is tragic that Asiwaju had to tutor his visitor, who had no policy
direction since his election in 2015, by engaging in a revision of the
programmes and policies of the PDP, such as the leasing system, the
mortgage and pension schemes which boosted the economy and directly
impacted on the lives of Nigerians.
More pathetic is the fact that the APC leader presented the PDP
programmes as if he was introducing novel ideas in the economy. This
clearly stood with our position that the APC government is incompetent
and lacking in ideas of how to move the nation forward.
While we congratulate the Lagos Governor Emeritus on his birthday, the
PDP considers it needful, to forewarn him to study the current ambience
of Nigerian politics as it relates to the failures of the Buhari
Presidency and the fact that the citizens have since rejected this
Presidency and the APC, so that Asiwaju will not find himself swimming
against the tide.
