The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the
sickening and outlandish claim by the Jonathan
campaign Organization that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu plans to become Vice President through the
back door was designed to divert attention from
the runaway success of the APC presidential
candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at the
Chatham House in London last Thursday.
In a statement issued in London on Saturday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said the PDP and the Jonathan
Administration still do not have any answer to
what has now become an epochal moment that has
separated the wheat from the chaff.
”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 that outing with a rented
crowd, some of whom confessed to have been paid
to carry placards they do 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,” it said.
APC said the claim is the latest in a series of
desperate moves by the PDP and the Jonathan
Administration since the emergence of Gen. Buhari
as the APC presidential candidate, and the clearest
indication yet that they have no answer to the
unstoppable momentum of a man of history.
”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 realized
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 hospitalized in
London. The preposterous claim of a secret oath –
reminiscent of what they do in their own party – by
the apparently ailing spokesman of the Jonathan
Campaign Organization, Femi Fani-Kayode, is their
latest desperate act,” the party said.
APC said in as much as it has so far refrained from
engaging Fani-Kayode in his game of character
assassination, abuses and irresponsible name
calling, the party is becoming seriously concerned
that he may be caving in under pressure and
reverting to his undignified past of substance
abuse.
The party said it would be a real tragedy if the
obviously-disturbed spokesman of a doomed
presidential campaign will have to be rushed to a
back house in Ghana for therapeutics, hence the
need for his handlers to quickly put him on a leash
before it is too late.
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