*You’re no match for ex-VP Atiku, PDP tells ex-Lagos Gov
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has informed the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that he lacks the capacity to match the PDP’s candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
The National Leader of the APC had on Wednesday, won the APC presidential primary after he scored 1,271 votes to defeat his closest rival and immediate former Minister of Transportation ,Mr Rotimi Amaechi, who received 316 votes.
But the PDP has mocked Tinubu in a statement made available on Wednesday, saying that Lagos is not Nigeria and insisted that Tinubu has embarked on “a journey to nowhere”.
The PDP further claimed that Tinubu’s acceptance speech further exposed his manifest lack of capacity, presence of mind, resourcefulness and selflessness to manage the affairs of a nation as complex as Nigeria.
The statement reads in part, “The PDP mocks Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for clinching at very great price, the presidential ticket of the moribund, decrepit and crippled APC, which has since served out its purpose as a fraudulent contraption that brought in the failed, corrupt and rudderless administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Our Party also sympathises with Asiwaju for embarking on a journey to nowhere as he is no match for PDP’s more popular, more competent and more prepared presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the unifier, and the people’s choice, who defeated President Buhari fair and square in the 2019 presidential election.
“Asiwaju will soon realise that Nigeria is not one of his acquired estates or fiefdoms and that the Nigerian people are not his political string-puppets and retinue of lackeys, from whom he bought the APC presidential ticket.”
“From Asiwaju’s egotistic outbursts before and after the APC manipulative national convention, it is crystal clear that his life-long dream of clinching the APC Presidential ticket is not for the wellbeing of Nigerians but out of desperation to lay hands on the keys to the nation’s treasury.
“Asiwaju has insulted the sensibilities of Nigerians enough and this APC National Convention will be his final political outing. This is because Nigerians have had enough and are now, more than ever before, ready and out on the platform of the PDP to defend our nation and reject Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election.
“The Nigerian politics is far more complex and what Nigerians need now is a unifier in the face of the pain and discomfort inflicted on them by Bola Tinubu, his live band of APC looters and mean human beings. He needs to know that Nigeria is not Lagos!”
