By Chidozie Euclid
The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council has stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is morally unfit for the Nigerian presidency and already a rejected figure in his South-West geopolitical zone.
The demand for Atiku’s arrest and interrogation, which was triggered by the APC campaign council, over claims by a self acclaimed whistleblower, Michael Achimugu, who alleged that the ex-Vice President was involved in malfeasance when he was Vice President from 1999-2007.
Reacting to the call, Spokesperson for the PDP Campaign Council, Sen. Dino Melaye, in a statement titled, ‘Tinubu’s Media Gang and the Pity of Electoral Hallucination’, on Tuesday reminded Tinubu’s handlers that their candidate is already in the public domain as a candidate with questionable background.
He said, “With all the false claims of Tinubu that he holds the aces in the South West, it is now obvious that critical social structures like Afenifere, major stakeholders like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and faith cum political voices like Pastor Tunde Bakare, have all rejected him.
“A man who does not enjoy charity at home is now seeking that the hands of other well grounded and rounded candidates are tied to pave way for him. The game has just started!
“It is not surprising that Obasanjo and Atiku are now being set up for attack. The combined activities of the duo constitute the effective terminator of the misguided aspiration of Tinubu to inherit an office that has no ancestral link to Iragbiji. Obasanjo’s assertion that ’emi lokan’ is an immoral and misleading claim and Atiku’s pole position in the build-up to the February 25 election has made them objects of mudslinging and rabid attacks.
“Having been suffocated in the campaign space, and looking for a shortcut to a far-fetched and improbable electoral success, the media gang of Ahmed Bola Tinubu in pitiable agony, struggled to clutch to a straw by placing their hope in an empty vessel, who is capitalising on the desperation of the Tinubu and his dreamers to sell fairy tales for a fortune.
“The Tinubu media jesters have often equated Nigeria with Lagos, where Baba so’pe ( Baba said ) is all that needs to be bellowed for all kinds of untoward actions to be taken. They forget that Nigeria is a country of due process, where allegations don’t amount to conviction, and where any urchin can wake up on the side of a bed to throw tantrums without any reprehension.
“The failure of the Tinubu gang is evident in their failed blackmail and insinuation against the very vibrant Nigerian media.”
