The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) yesterday said the co-chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s involvement in President Muhammadu Buhari ‘s re-election campaign is motivated by personal reasons and not in national or regional interests.
The PDP while reacting to a criticism by Tinubu against their presidential candidate, former vice president, Atiku, also dared Tinubu to respond to allegations that he succumbed to leading the Buhari re-election bid following purported threats by agents of the “Presidency to expose and prosecute him for corruption allegations and not because he believes in the propriety of President Buhari’s re-election.”
The party cautioned Tinubu on his penchant for making unsubstantiated allegations against its candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
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The Media and Publicity director of PPCO, Kola Ologbondiyan, recalled how “Asiwaju in January 2018, at the 15th Annual Daily Trust Dialogue rejected the Buhari administration’s nepotism, incompetence, corrupt oil subsidy regime; blamed it for the high-level of poverty in our country and urged Nigerians to be guided by their conscience in electing leaders in the 2019 general elections.
“Berating the Buhari administration, Asiwaju held that ‘too much political and economic power resides in the hands of too few. This result in too much unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, too little food, yet too much poverty.
“Asiwaju had also rightly posited that, under President Buhari, ‘rather than becoming a joyous nation, Nigeria has become a cruel playground where the fears and concerns of the average person get exploited but their interests never get promoted.’
“He then concluded by urging Nigerians to follow their conscience in the 2019 elections by resisting “unthinking passions and old prejudices”, which is the hallmark of President Buhari’s re-election campaign.
The PDP, in its statement, said Nigerians are now questioning what has suddenly changed in President Buhari’s leadership style to warrant Asiwaju’s full circle turn.
“Nigerians have seen that Asiwaju’s involvement in Buhari 2019 campaign is not motivated by any national or even regional interests but by personal reasons far from the general good”.
