Politics
PDP To Tinubu: Stop Using Us To Get Relevance With Buhari
Party Says Tinubu Is Now At The Backseat In APC
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday chided Bola Ahmed Tinubu of throwing insults at it in his bid to gain relevance warning him that even chieftains of his All Progressives Congress, APC were determined to put him in the backseat of the party.
Responding to the APC national leader’s chastisement of the PDP delivered from Saudi Arabia, the opposition party lambasted Tinubu of going to Saudi Arabia to engage in gossips which it said was indicative of the fact that he had lost relevance with Buhari in Nigeria.
The party in a statement issued by the party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said:
“It is atrocious that at the time other leaders are in the Holy Land offering prayers and supplications for our nation, Asiwaju Tinubu is in Mecca for photo-ops, playing dirty politics and hauling insults at other Nigerians just to curry relevance before President Buhari.
“The party notes that nothing but sheer hypocrisy would push Asiwaju Tinubu to engage in unholy praises of a failed administration in a desperation to avert the purported threats by certain agents of the Presidency to expose him.
“This is the same Asiwaju Tinubu, who, in January 2018, at the 15th Annual Daily Trust Dialogue, berated the Buhari administration for its nepotism, incompetence, corrupt oil subsidy regime; blaming it for the high-level poverty in our country and counseled Nigerians to be guided by their conscience in electing leaders in the 2019 general elections.
“Asiwaju, in criticizing the Buhari administration held rightly that ‘too much political and economic power resides in the hands of too few. This result in a society described by too much of unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, too little food, yet too much poverty.’
“He then added correctly 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.’
“The PDP therefore lambasts Asiwaju Tinubu for making allusion to its determination with Nigerians to retrieve Atiku Abubakar’s stolen Presidential mandate at the court, adding that no amount of blackmail can detract from this resolve.
“The party cautioned Asiwaju Tinubu to call himself to order, particularly as Nigerians, including members of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, have seen through his power-grabbing antics and are now determined to give him the back seat treatment.”
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