Don’t Waste Your Time On Tinubu, PDP Campaign Tells Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to waste his precious time campaigning for the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu.

The Spokesman of the PDP Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, said this in a statement on Thursday in response to the statement by the Presidency that President Buhari would campaign for Tinubu to win the 2023 presidential election.

According to Ologbondiyan, Nigerians across board have already rejected Tinubu because of his link to drug trafficking, money laundering, and other grievous allegations.

He said it is shocking that Tinubu who is accused of corruption, perjury, identity theft, inconsistencies in name and ancestry, as well as alleged narcotics offence for which he forfeited a whopping sum of $460,000 to the United States of America, could present himself for election into the office of president.

Ologbondiyan said, “It is imperative to state that Nigerians will never entrust the destiny of our nation to any individual who is completely tarnished; whose persona is globally tainted with issues of criminal allegations, who cannot explain the source of his wealth in the face of accusations that it is the proceeds of corruption.

“Of course, there is no way Nigerians will trust or elect an individual who is so depraved that he can present the photograph of another person, former Governor of Cross Rivers State, Donald Duke, as his to gain followership in a documentary used as part of his campaign materials to canvass for votes.

“Such proclivity to falsehood is evident in the attempt by Tinubu, who cannot point to any resounding legacy project he articulated and executed in his brawling years as Governor of Lagos State, to shamelessly claim credit for the achievements of his predecessors and successors in office.

“It is strange that anybody can expect Nigerians to elect a failed State Governor whose only achievement is entrenching governance by brawl, personal enrichment and puffery.”

Ologbondiyan noted that Nigerians across the country have since established their preference for Atiku over Tinubu as the next president of the country because of his integrity, desired capacity, competence, presence of mind, political will and stamina to lead the nation at this critical time.

He said what Nigerians expect from Buhari is to provide the enabling environment that would guarantee peaceful, free, fair, transparent and credible elections in 2023 as well as a smooth transfer of power on May 29, 2023.

Ologbondiyan therefore advised the President not waste his time to campaign for Tinubu, who is only seen in the public as a butt of jokes for his endless gaffes, display of vacuity and incapacity to lead.

He stated: “Nigerians want Atiku on the saddle in their yearning for the return of the good days; the period of Atiku Abubakar as Vice President and Chairman of the Economic Council, when our nation witnessed unprecedented economic growth to become one of the fastest growing economies of the world, where citizens were secure, prosperous and happy.

“President Buhari should therefore not waste his time to campaign for Asiwaju Tinubu, who has lost grip of the Presidential contest and is only seen in the public as a butt of jokes for his endless gaffes, display of vacuity and incapacity to lead.”