The two main political parties in the country are at it again. The All Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of trying to steal the limelight from the success of its party’s presidential candidate during his appearance at Chatham House, by stating that its national leader, Bola Tinubu, is scheming to take the Presidency through the backdoor.
The APC described the claim as “sickening and outlandish”, saying the ruling party after failing to stop the rise of Muhammadu Buhari, has “resorted to making nauseating claims that are totally untrue.”
The opposition party released a statement in London on Saturday, February 28, through its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, saying that Buhari’s outing was “an epochal moment that has separated the wheat from the chaff.”
The statement read in part: “Our presidential candidate’s globally-acclaimed outing has presented Nigerians, and indeed the global community, with a choice between a bumbling, ineffective, incoherent, clueless, visionless and incompetent President and an assertive, knowledgeable, dignified, purposeful and principled President-in-waiting.
“Having failed to discredit the (United Kingdom) outing with a rented crowd, some of whom confessed to have been paid to carry placards they did not even understand, the PDP and the Jonathan Administration have now resorted to making nauseating claims that are totally untrue, absolutely incomprehensible and nothing but sheer bunkum.”
APC further stated that: “They have thrown everything imaginable at Gen. Buhari, but he has continued to wax stronger and stronger: They said he was not qualified, that he was too old, then they fabricated a medical report of an illness of their own choice, sponsored death wish adverts against him and instituted a myriad of court cases to stop him.”
“After they failed to stop him, they went after the election itself, using the PVCs as a tool to launch a campaign for postponement and, when they realised that would not work, came up with the bogey of insecurity in the North-East to force a postponement of the election, hoping they can buy enough time to revive their electoral misfortune.”
“With everything working against them, they engaged in a show of shame at The Chatham House that backfired badly, on the heels of their bare-faced lies that Gen. Buhari was hospitalised in London. The preposterous claim of a secret oath – reminiscent of what they do in their own party – by the apparently ailing spokesman for the Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, is their latest desperate act.”
