The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to withdraw from the race due to his party’s dance of shame at the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as his running mate.
The opposition party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, addressed a press conference, Friday, 22nd July, in Abuja over the act that has been hearing up the country’s political space over the last few days.
“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is appalled by the nauseating, blasphemous and unpardonable act by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in hiring street artisans, fraudsters and touts and criminally dressing them in bishop’s vestments to orchestrate an endorsement for its collapsing Presidential campaign,” Olohunagba said at the press conference.
The opposition party’s spokesman said: “The PDP, in the strongest term, condemns this profane and highly provocative act of desperation by the sinking APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the face of APC’s collapsing leadership, membership and followership structure across the country.”
He said Nigerians were sickened by videos and pictorial evidence of “known mechanics, bus conductors and fraudsters sacrilegiously being dressed in fake bishop vestments and paid to endorse the unveiling of Asiwaju Tinubu’s widely rejected running mate, Sen. Kashim Shettima.”
Ologunagba described the action as unacceptable and unbecoming of any individual aspiring to a leadership position at any level let alone, the office of the President, stating, “This is an embarrassment to leadership.”
He said: “With this scandalous act, Asiwaju Tinubu, who is still battling with issues of alleged perjury, non-existent certificate and allegations of extortions has become more ethically challenged and lost all moral standing to seek election as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
More sickening, according to PDP publicity scribe, is the reported outcry by the hirelings that they were defrauded by agents of the APC Presidential candidate, who paid them sums ranging from N30,000 to N40,000 as against the N100,000 they were earlier promised.
“t is therefore ludicrous that instead of being remorseful and asking for forgiveness, the APC Presidential Campaign is shamelessly posting lame denials and excuses in the face of hard and verified evidence of its involvement in the shameless,” he said.
