· APC will account for its failure – Atiku
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has dismissed insinuations that he is sick, declaring that he is not sick but hale and hearty, stressing it was not a wrestling match.
Speaking at a dinner in his honour by the Kano Business Community, the two-term governor of Lagos state said, “I’m neither running for a 100-yard or 500-yard race nor am I competing in WWE wrestling. I’m running for the presidency which is a knowledge-driven job. I am very healthy.”
WWE is the World Wrestling Entertainment popular in most parts of Nigeria and around the world.
Asking rhetorically, “Do I look sick?” Tinubu asked the audience.
The APC presidential candidate whose mission in Kano was to inaugurate the APC governorship and presidential campaign offices in the commercial city announced the donation of N500,000,000 to flood victims.
The Kano business community used the occasion to present a blueprint for their demands if he eventually clinches the presidential seat.
While assuring the business community that the document would not be tampered with, Tinubu, said when he wins the 2023 presidential election, he would implement the document.
In his remark, Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, shortly after outlining his achievements in the state, within the last seven years plus, declared that the APC is the winning ticket all through, judging by the achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in the country at large and Kano in particular.
“Is it the Inland Dry port that has been ongoing for over 25 years, which is almost at 100 per cent completion stage or is it the modern railway from Lagos to Kano to Katsina and Maradi, in the Niger Republic?”
In another development, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP on Sunday, said Nigerians would hold the APC for “their failure”.
In a newsletter sent out on Sunday, the former vice-president said, “It’s a plan that encompasses a wide range of the challenges that beset us currently, and the core purpose of my campaign is to market those plans to Nigerians. For me and everyone in the PDP side, including you, the next general election is a referendum on the performance of the APC.
“The ruling party will want to run away from their poor performance. In fact, they will wish that we focus on topics that are irrelevant to the next election. But we won’t give them that advantage. We will hold them accountable for their scorecards. But even that is not enough. What is more important is that we don’t make the same mistake again.
“That’s why it is incumbent on us to evaluate the plans of each political party and let that be the yardstick of our electoral decisions. As the presidential candidate of the PDP, I shall insist that we focus on issues that are relevant to the next election. I will count on your support in marketing these plans so that, in the end, we both would have done our part to ensure that Nigeria is the ultimate winner in the election next year.”
