The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that former former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Bola Tinubu supported the election General Muhammadu Buhari as the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate for his personal gains. The party also said that its flag-bearer, President Goodluck Jonathan, is up for the presidential contest in the February 14, 2015 election with Tinubu and not General Buhari. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said this in a statement on Sunday. It said the APC Presidential candidate, General Buhari is merely a front for Alhaji Tinubu to whom he has already surrendered his powers and first official assignment of choosing a running mate. The statement read, “This development clearly confirms that General Buhari is not in charge, may have been compromised and willing to be appropriated. In fact, patriotic Nigerians from across the six geo-political zones are now embarrassed that General Buhari is playing a godson to Alhaji Tinubu. “In surrendering his prerogative of choosing his running mate, General Buhari has confirmed that he is being appropriated and compromised to serve a personal and narrow group interest of a cabal on whose ticket he emerged as the presidential candidate. “This APC cabal under the command of Tinubu tampered with all the rules of their party to achieve their selfish agenda of planting surrogates in all strategic positions to enable Tinubu expand his economic and political frontiers the way and manner he did in Lagos state. “Therefore a vote for General Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election is clearly a vote for Tinubu, his political and economic interests. “Indeed, the possible calculation of this cabal, if they ever get to power, is to choke-up General Buhari and ultimately frustrate him out of office thereby allowing Tinubu to have total control of the economic and political interests of the nation. PDP also alleged that neither Tunubu nor Buhari can bring change to the country. “Therefore the question the citizens want answered remains, ‘is Tinubu the face of the so-called change the APC wants to bequeath to Nigerians? “The APC and its leadership have clearly shown that to them, national interest is secondary to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s business interests, little wonder many are now calling APC Asiwajus Personal Consortium, it added.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:20:21 +0000
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